Digital Discourse Database

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Pourquoi les rois du Net rêvent d'intelligence artificielle

(Why the kings of the Internet dream of artificial intelligence)

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Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 16.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain
Summary | Google, Amazon, and Apple have been investing millions of dollars in the field of deep learning. AI used to be a trend in sci-fi movies and books only, but it's now part of our lives. Nowadays, computers do not only do math, they can understand people and respond to them. The way deep learning works is similar to the way ourr brain works.
Image Description | Cartoon representing two chess players: a real man and a "digital" man.
Image Tags | male(s)

Contre la tyrannie des e-mails, passons à l'« e-légement »

(Against the tyranny of emails, let's start the "e-relief")

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Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 15.4.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | addiction, email, technology-free
Summary | People spend a lot of time checking and writing emails at work. More and more companies establish "digital detox" measures to help their employees. Because of the immediacy and permanence of emails, workers spend most of their time on their keyboards. As a result, there is a deterioration of the quality of information and a negative impact on productivity.
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Siri, Cortana, Now, M, Alexa... la guerre des assistants virtuels est déclarée

(Siri, Cortana, Now, M, Alexa... war of virtual assistants is declared )

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Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 3.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Echo is Amazon's new virtual assistant. Named Alexa, she can answer your questions, turn on the music, or turn down the heat. The market related to those AI products reached 277 million of dollars in 2015, and might reach 2 billion of dollars in 2024 thanks to progress in natural language processing.
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L'intelligence artificielle a-t-elle cessé d'être bête ?

(Has artificial intelligence stopped from being dumb?)

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Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 9.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain
Summary | Deep learning techniques have allowed progress in the field of image recognition and natural language processing. The software AlphaGo has finally won against South Korean champion Lee Sedol. Yann LeCun claims that in 10 to 15 years, every car will be autonomous and that maybe it will be impossible for people to drive a car since human beings are less reliable than computers. Claude Berrou is also very optimistic regarding the potential of deep learning.
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Les youtubeuses mode, une véritable industrie

(Fashion youtubers, a real industry)

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Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 27.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | marketing, YouTube
Summary | A showroom called "Get Beauty" is going to gather 70 YouTube vloggers. Together, the 70 female youtubers have 1,5 billion viewed videos. Thanks to brand content, the trend is becoming a real industry. 9 out of 10 people have already bought a product after watching a video on YouTube. Those fashion youtubers have the same language as their target audience.
Image Description | Collage of various female youtubers.
Image Tags | female(s)

Tinder, Snapchat : tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur l'amour virtuel...

(Tinder, Snapchat: everything you ever wanted to know abotu virtual love...)

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Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 4.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | online dating, virtual reality
Summary | Anne-Sophie Letac studies the effectiveness of virtual relationships. Does virtual love allow the same kind of intimacy than physical sex? Is it a real feeling or an illusion? Can people cheat on their partners if they have a virtual relationship? Virtual love can also be seen as a social progress.
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Pourquoi Twitter fait sa révolution en abandonnant les 140 caractères

(Why Twitter is having a revolution by dropping its 140 characters)

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Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 7.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | Facebook, Twitter
Summary | Twitter is having a revolution: the social network is going to give up its 140-character limit. Twitter has not made any comments yet. Twitter users don't like the idea of writing long tweets. The social network has not changed a lot since 2006. Facebook, however, does not hesitate to introduce changes.
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Sur Facebook, de nouveaux boutons pour dire la colère, la tristesse et l'amour

(On Facebook, new buttons to express anger, sadness, and love)

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Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 28.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook is going to introduce new reaction buttons to express love, sadness, surprise, and anger. Mark Zuckerberg thought that a dislike button would have been too negative, so he decided to introduce those new reaction buttons.
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Le pape François, roi de la communication digitale

(Pope Francis, king of digital communication)

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Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 16.3.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | Instagram
Summary | Pope Francis has 9 Twitter account and will soon create an Instagram account. He is one of the most influential people online. He claimed that images are powerful; they can unite people of different cultures and languages. Today, image and video exchanges dominate the digital world.
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L'art du retweet appliqué à la lettre de motivation

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Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 8.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | marketing, Twitter
Summary | Youcef Boualem applied to a job at Fred & Farid and created a cover letter using retweets. Although Twitter does not speak professional language, it is more fun. His letter has been shared multiple times by different media. More than ten communication agencies contacted him for an interview. Boualem was inspired by one of Fred & Farid's communication campaigns for Biocoop based on recycled tweets.
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