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L'intelligence artificielle à l'assaut de nos logements
(Artificial intelligence launched an attack on our homes)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 27.7.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, texting
Summary | Artificial intelligence is getting closer to our homes. Many French companies want to make our lives at home easier, and artificial intelligence is the answer. For instance, HomeServe worked with natural language processing in order to create a virtual assistant that can solve breakdowns. Thanks to artificial intelligence, users can send a message to a chatbot (called Tom) and explain the problem/breakdown. Then, Tom identifies the breakdown and tries to find a way to solve it. This new assistant can also tell you how much the fixing will cost and schedule an appointment with a professional.
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Comment donner le goût de la lecture?
(How to instill the love of reading?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 20.3.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | childhood, school, spelling, texting, threat, word/writing
Summary | Teenagers don't read a lot. This is not new, but nowadays texting and social networks are a priority among young people. They want immediacy, community, and noise, and reading equals silence, long time, and solitude. Young people read differently, which is why Bayard decided to focus on short stories instead of novels. Elementary schools are experimenting something new: the reading machine. Users can alternate on a tablet reading and listening phases.
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Messenger met les marques en contact avec leurs clients
(Messenger brings together brands and their customers)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 12.4.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, marketing
Summary | Bots might be the future of big companies such as Facebook. In France, the train company SNCF and the insurance company Axa Shift were the first ones to introduce bots. Chatbots were born in 1950, but they only became popular with the introduction of Siri in 2011 (the iPhone's assistant). With bots, people will be able to book a cab or check their bank information on their phone. Bots wouldn't replace apps; they would make the use of apps easier.
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«Nous n'avons jamais autant écrit à travers l'histoire de l'humanité»
("We have never written so much through the history of mankind")
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 27.7.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, grammar, language threat, social media, spelling, word/writing
Summary | Linguist Louise-Amélie Cougnon answers some questions related to digital language and language threat. She talks about social media language and emojis, and claims that we should not worry about the spread of digital language. Also, research does not show a link between digital language use and language impoverishment. However, it seems that pupils have lower spelling and grammar skills than before.
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Pierre Halté : «L'émoji n'est pas un appauvrissement du langage»
(Pierre Halté: "emojis are not impoverishing language")
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 17.7.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, word/writing
Summary | Linguist Pierre Halté talks about the emoji phenomenon. Emojis are not used to compensate a lack of vocabulary. Indeed, they do not replace words, but they replace a gesture, a tone of voice that we would use while speaking. Also, people have always been communicating with images. Furthermore, emoji is not a universal language because of cultural differences between countries. Halté also talks about the difference between emoji and emoticon, the origin of the first emojis, emoji users, and the future of written language.
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L'art d'utiliser les emojis avec prudence au bureau
(Using emojis with caution at work)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 17.7.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | email, emojis
Summary | Emojis are so popular that we can even find them in professional emails. Emojis are used to "humanize" a message, but people should use them with caution (e.g. with your boss or clients). According to Pierre Halté, people think that those who do not want to use emojis are older, but there are young people who refuse to use them in their text messages
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Et si nous repensions la place que prend le smartphone dans notre quotidien?
(What if we rethink about the role of smartphones in our daily life?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 5.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | privacy, smartphone, technology-free, threat
Summary | The 16th edition of "Days without smartphones" will be held this weekend. According to Phil Marso, smartphones can be dangerous (e.g. privacy issues, car accidents). Marso wants to show people that smartphones are convenient but that we can live without them.
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Viv, le nouvel assistant personnel des créateurs de Siri
(Viv, the new personal assistant of Siri's creators)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 11.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | The new personal assistant Viv is more efficient than Siri. Viv understands natural language and can answer complex questions and requests thanks to artificial intelligence.
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Peut-on vivre sans écrans?
(Can we live without screens?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 13.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, smartphone, technology-free
Summary | In the past few years, new technologies have been spreading so fast. We use our smartphone everywhere (restaurant, bathroom, street). A few French people decided to unplug for an hour, a weekend, or their whole life. Marie Bezou says that she felt free when she gave up her phone. People who try to regulate their use of digital devices are rare. A 16-year old girl claims that she doesn't use her phone very often, unlike other young people who are hyperconnected. People who own a smartphone look at their device about 150 times a day.
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L'ordinateur personnel est-il condamné à disparaître?
(Are personal computers going to disappear?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 20.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | smartphone, threat
Summary | Computer sales are down; more and more people only use their smartphone and don't need a personal computer. Smartphones are spreading faster than any new technology (besides TV). in 1977 the PC era was launched with Bill Gates, but today, computer sales are down. However, for certain uses, computers are still preferred (e.g. video games).
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