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Intelligence artificielle: Google lance un groupe de recherche européen sur l'apprentissage
(Artificial intelligence: Google starts a European research group on learning)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 20.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, research/study, threat
Summary | In Zurich, Switzerland, Google started a new research group on artificial intelligence that will focus on "deep learning" and machine learning. The goals of the research will be to help computers to better understand language, and to help researchers to better understand how machine learning works. Some people such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk warned us against the potential risks of AI.
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Sur Facebook, la façon de s'exprimer des hommes et des femmes diffère
(On Facebook, men and women express themselves differently)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 2.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | Facebook, gender, research/study
Summary | A group of researchers analyzed 68000 Facebook posts to identify language/communication differences between men and women. Men tend to be "colder", to swear more, and to talk more about sports, politics and video games. Women tend to talk more about social relationships and to describe positive emotions.
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Les «mèmes» plus forts que «Jésus»
("Memes" stronger than "Jesus")
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 15.12.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | meme, politics, word/writing
Summary | Google Trends allows people to compare users' searches on different topics. A chart shows the results of two searches: "Jesus" (red curve) and "memes" (blue curve). In September, the blue curve passed the red one, which means that memes were "stronger than Jesus". Google Trends can also be used for political polls. However, the tool is not perfect and has some limitations.
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Après sa version haoussa, Facebook se lance en peul
(After its Hausa version, Facebook introduces the Fula language )
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 30.9.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | Facebook
Summary | Facebook is now available in Fula. The Fula language is mostly spoken from Mauritania to Sudan, and is the 101st Facebook language. Ibrahima Sarr, who is part of the translators' team, asked if it would be possible to introduce the new language. With the help of the team, they were able to do it. Last summer, Facebook introduced another African language: Hausa.
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Le «nouvel eldorado» des «bots»
(The "new eldorado" of "bots")
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 16.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Facebook Messenger's boss claims that consumers will use messaging apps more and more, at the expense of emails, phones, and mobile apps. Other people have also been privileging the conversational mode in the service industry: Kik's boss (Ted Livingston) uses "bots", which are robots that simulate human conversations. For instance, if you're hungry, you can order a pizza using Domino's pizza's bot. A similar trend is happening in China with WeChat. What is interesting about WeChat is the fact that it can give out personal information to product and service suppliers.
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A la rencontre de Watson, l'intelligence artificielle star d'IBM
(Meet Watson, IBM's artificial intelligence star)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 18.3.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Watson is an artificial intelligence program that can analyze your psychological profile while chatting with you. Watson can for example suggest a beer that would be adapted to your taste based on a series of questions. The program does not only recommend beers, it also gets involved in hospitals and banks. Watson can recognize words, images, and can analyze people's tone and emotions. The goal is not to create people's replicas, but to find out what people's limitations are.
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L'intelligence artificielle reproduit aussi le sexisme et le racisme des humains
(Artificial intelligence also reproduces human beings' sexism and racism)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 15.4.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, gender, research/study, threat
Summary | Gender stereotypes are reproduced in some artificial intelligence programs. Researchers at the University of Stanford show how machine learning can replicate people's biases. They based their research on a technology called GloVe, which is trained to look for common associations. The technology points to some problematic associations that illustrate sexism and racism. The fact that AI follows people's prejudices can have some serious consequences, so people are trying to find solutions against AI's biases.
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«Rends l'argent», le mème qui aura poursuivi Fillon jusqu'à sa défaite
("Give the money back", the meme that followed Fillon until his defeat)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 24.4.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | meme, politics, social media
Summary | On social media, the meme "give the money back" has been very popular. It started online, but it quickly spread to reach the streets of Paris. The meme disappeared at the same time as Fillon's defeat, but it remained the best representation of the presidential election. The expression "give the money back" was part of people's language when they would talk about politics online. The expression spread from "virtual life" to "real life".
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La «dictée par la pensée» sur laquelle travaille Facebook n'est pas encore pour demain
(The "mind dictation", on which Facebook is working, is not for tomorrow)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 17.4.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, Facebook
Summary | At a Facebook conference on April 19th, it was announced that Facebook is working on a new project that should allow people to type directly from their mind/thoughts. Researchers want to decode language in order to allow people to type their thoughts. The goal would be to type 100 words per minute based on a person's thoughts. Decoding language directly from the brain is difficult. Moreover, Facebook is facing a major difficulty with the sensor technology they want to develop. Finally, besides technical difficulties, there are also ethical ones.
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Malgré d'impressionnants progrès, la traduction automatique a encore du chemin à parcourir
(Despite tremendous progress, machine translation still has a long way to go)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 19.5.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, translation
Summary | Facebook, TripAdvisor, and Google Chrome often ask users if they want to translate their content into French. Translations have improved, but translated texts can still be imperfect and odd. Still, translated texts are usually good enough to allow people to understand original texts. Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are still trying to improve their translation tools to make them faster and more accurate.
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