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La leçon d'un maître de l'intelligence artificielle au Collège de France
(The lesson of a master of artificial intelligence at the Collège de France)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 4.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Yann LeCun is a master of artificial intelligence; he will be at the Collège de France on Feb. 4th. LeCun was inspired by Chomsky and Piaget's debate about innate or acquired language; later, he did his PhD on artifical neurons. He joined Facebook in 2013. Thanks to his research, our cell phones' assistants can now recognize human voice, and people's faces can be identified in pictures. LeCun also invented "deep learning".
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Quand le numérique permet de rapprocher les générations
(When "digital" brings generations closer together)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 10.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | gender, social media
Summary | The Professional Women's Network in Paris launched its first 'reverse mentoring digital' where young women between 25 and 35 have the opportunity of teaching 50-year old women the basics of IT and digital language, with a focus on the use of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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Le numérique de "A" à"Z" avec Frédéric Martel
(The digital world from "A" to "Z" with Frédéric Martel)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 15.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | anglicisms, threat, word/writing
Summary | In his magazine Soft Power, Martel explains the meaning of several expressions related to the digital world such as "digital literacy", "crowfunding", "cloud", "social TV", "Big Data", "unicorn", or "digital empowerment".
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Mamadou Dramé, pionnier des nouvelles technologies 'made in Africa'
(Mamadou Dramé, pioneer of new technologies 'made in Africa')
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 10.3.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | computer programming, digitized education, social media
Summary | Mamadou Dramé studied in Senegal, and was suprised by the archaism of his university administration system. He thus decided to work on the digitization of schools. Dramé created a social network for his school (called Asema) that provides students with job offers. In 2011, Dramé launched Web Corner, which is a forum specialized in the digitization of Senegalese education, and also founded Digital School Technologies. Finally, Dramé also created Africa School, an organization that distributes laptops and tablets to young Africans so they can learn programming, tomorrow's language.
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Les nouveaux terrains de jeu des géants du Net
(The new playground of the internet giants)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 22.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, virtual reality
Summary | Google is going to launch "Home", an intelligent assistant that will be able to answer its users' questions, schedule an appointment, or answer emails. Google wants to catch up with Amazon, that released "Echo". Google also presented "Allo", an intelligent messaging app that can answer people's answers. Finally, Google also relies on virtual reality with its new platform called Daydream. Facebook presented something similar with its helmet "Oculus".
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Microsoft mise sur les « chatbots » pour remplacer les applications
(Microsoft relies on "chatbots" in order to replace apps)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 1.4.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Instant messaging apps are evolving and changing into "super platforms" where chatbots can help users book a flight ticket, or choose the type of cheese they want on their pizza. However, this new technology has its flaws; one of Microsoft's chatbots released a racist statement. Thanks to chatbots, people wouldn't need to use apps anymore.
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Facebook place le business au coeur de sa messagerie
(Facebook places business at the heart of its messaging service)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 14.4.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | War bots has begun. Facebook is going to develop one of those devices that simulate human conversations thanks to artificial intelligence. Facebook wants to include on its social network all the online transactions (including commercial ones).
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Jean-Marc Patouillaud: L'ère des « bots »
(Jean-Marc Patouillaud: the era of "bots")
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 18.4.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | People spend an average of three hours a day on their mobile phone. Most of the time, they are using apps -more specifically, messaging apps such as Messenger, WeChat, Whats-App, and Snapchat. Those apps allow people to do different things; for instance, WeChat users can exchange videos and contact their doctor. The latest trend: invisible apps (bots) that anticipate users' needs.
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Google lance un assistant personnel numérique familial
(Google launches a family digital personal assistant )
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 20.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google launched "Google Home", a personal assistant similar to what Amazon, Facebook, or Microsoft have. People will be able to ask Google Home to play a song, translate a word, give a piece of information, change a restaurant reservation, or answer emails. Progress in the field of machine learning has made those personal assistants more efficient.
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Finlande. Emménagez rue des emojis
(Finland: Move to emoji street)
Newspaper | Courrier International
Date | 23.11.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Lojha, in Finland, just approved a few street names for its new business district. Emojikatu and Meemikatu will soon be new street names in Lohja. Literally they mean "Emoji street" and "Meme street". On social networks, Finnish Internet users proposed street names like "lol street" or "Vlog street".
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