Number of Posts: 196
Posts 11 - 20
Ce que nos applis disent de nous: Yacine, 15 ans, Snapchat dans le sang
(What our apps say about us: Yacine, 15, Snapchat in his blood)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 28.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | addiction, privacy, Snapchat, social media
Summary | Yacine is 15, and he loves Snapchat. The app is very popular; it allows users to send ephemeral videos, photos, and messages. Today, with its "stories" available for 24 hours, Snapchat is a real social network. Yacine claims that he has to visit Snapchat at least once a day, for the flames. He you send a lot of snaps to another user, a flame appears next to that user's name, and the goal is to keep that fame. With Snapchat, everything is playful. Yacine also says that TV is old fashioned. He uses his phone and his iPad to watch videos. He also claims he is not addicted to new technologies, but his mother is more skeptical. Yacine also talks about other social networks and why he prefers Snapchat.
Image Description | N/A
Des chatbots rebelles désactivés en Chine
(Rebellious chatbots deactivated in China)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 4.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship
Summary | Two Chinese chatbots have been deactivated after they criticized the Communist Party. One of the chatbots -available on a popular messaging app- answered "no" to the question "do you like the Communist Party?".
Image Description | N/A
Les géants d'Internet face à la « bête immonde »
(The internet giants facing the "appalling beast")
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 6.9.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | censorship
Summary | The internet giants have been saying contradictory things regarding the recent neonazi manifestations in the US. For instance, they praise freedom of speech and claim they're not responsible for the content available on their platforms. They also blocked neonazi content while letting ISIS spread on their platforms. Their censorship is thus seen as arbitrary and follows their ideology.
Image Description | N/A
SmileTracker, l'application qui épie vos émotions
(SmileTracker, the app that is spying on your emotions)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 27.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | SmileTracker is an app that can detect smiles thanks to a face recognition system. Users can gather all their pictures in one "smile gallery" and then share them on the SmileTracker website or Facebook. If people see those pictures, it can trigger positive emotions and a general well-being. This SmileTracker app is one of MIT's experiments. Researchers at MIT want to create machines capable of recognizing and measuring human emotions.
Image Description | N/A
Intelligence artificielle, du fantasme à la réalité
(Artificial intelligence, from fantasy to reality)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 23.7.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Artificial intelligence is very popular now, but it's nothing new; it was created in 1956. John McCarthy, Researchers Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester et Claude Shannon wanted to create an intelligent machine capable of understanding language, formulating abstract concepts, and solve problems that only humans would be able to solve. However, their research ends up being inconclusive. People will need to wait until 2012 to see something working with "deep learning". Facebook, IBM, Amazon, or Google have been investing in deep learning methods. Researchers claim that those intelligent machines should be ethical.
Image Description | N/A
Au-delà des fantasmes, quels sont les problèmes concrets que pose l'intelligence artificielle?
(Beyond fantasy, what are the real problems that poses artificial intelligence?)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 4.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, threat
Summary | When Elon Musk said that robots were killing people and that we should be worried about that, Mark Zuckerberg replied that Musk's ideas were irresponsible and also praised the advances of artificial intelligence. Even if Musk's pessimism seems exaggerated, artificial intelligence raises some concerns and problems (e.g. impact on jobs, racist and sexist softwares, creation of autonomous weapons, surveillance problems, etc.)
Image Description | N/A
Des entreprises au militantisme, la communication des émojis
(From companies to militancy, emoji communication)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 17.7.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, marketing
Summary | Emojis are a fully-fledged language and a means of influence that internet users and business companies want to use. Emojis were created in Japan at the end of the 1990s. Now, the Unicode Consortium gets to decide what emojis we can use. Anyone can submit a proposal for a new emoji; in 2015, a Muslim teenage girl launched a campaign for the introduction of a hijab emoji.
Image Description | People sitting and watching a game; two of them are wearing emoji masks.
Image Tags | emojis
La bataille fait rage autour des assistants personnels vocaux
(The battle rages around personal vocal assistants)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 6.6.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple are all investing in devices that allow people and machines to communicate. Those intelligent machines are personal assistants. Still, there are a few obstacles that we need to overcome: accept the fact that an object is constantly listening to you, and find a way to represent the diversity of accents and languages.
Image Description | N/A
Le français Snips lève 12 millions d'euros pour faire parler les objets du quotidien
(The French Snips raised 12 million Euros in order to make everyday objects talk)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 18.9.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, privacy
Summary | The startup Snips developed a new technology that should allow objects to understand voice command without any internet connection, thanks to artificial intelligence. Snips wants to compete with Amazon, Google, Facebook or Microsoft. What Snips proposes is slightly different from what the other giants have. For instance, the French startup wants to offer solutions that are more respectful of people's privacy.
Image Description | N/A
Qu'est-ce qu'un chatbot?
(What is a chatbot?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 8.6.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, social media, texting
Summary | "Chatbot" comes from "chat" and "robot", and is a software that imitates human conversation and natural language. We can come across chatbots on certain companies' websites (e.g. SNCF, Orange, Fnac, Ikea). We can ask them questions online and they usually try to help us. Chatbots are particularly popular today, but the concept is now new; it started in 1960 a program called Eliza (from MIT). Today's softwares are more complex and powerful. They are increasingly used on social media and messaging apps.
Image Description | N/A
Page 2 of 20
Back |
Next