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Apple unfurls more millennial-friendly texting tools including 'emoji prediction'
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 14.6.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, privacy
Summary | Apple talked about the latest updates/developements concerning its products at its annual developer conference in San Francisco. For instance, they talked about the possibility for iPhone users to add larger emojis or emojify their texts. They also discussed the use of digital assistants and AI, and privacy features.
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Mattel lance une intelligence artificielle pour veiller sur les enfants
(Mattel launches an artificial intelligence tool to watch over children)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 5.1.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, childhood, privacy, smartphone
Summary | Mattel presented its new AI assistant to be used in children's bedrooms. The assistant (Aristotle) goes off if a child is crying in the middle of the night, for instance. Then, parents receive a notification on their smartphone. Aristotle is supposed to understand toddlers' language and to develop/evolve with them. The assistant can talk to toddlers and play music.
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Apple accélère dans l'intelligence artificielle
(Apple is moving faster in the field of artificial intelligence)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 18.10.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, Google, privacy, research/study
Summary | Apple has a new research group that will be in charge of AI. With Siri, Apple was in fact one of the first companies to introduce chatbots. Nowadays, there are many personal assistants that are far better than Siri (e.g. Alexa and Google Assistant). Unlike Google or Facebook, Apple does not base its research and activities on people's personal information. However, to be efficient in the field of AI, a company needs a lot of personal data. This is why Facebook and Google are at the forefront of these technologies.
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Ils programment leurs vies comme on programme un ordinateur
(They are programming their lives the same way we would program a computer)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 25.10.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | addiction, artificial intelligence, privacy, threat
Summary | IFTTT services target the general public, and the goal of such services is to let digital devices handle people's professional and personal lives. Some people are worried about the potential risks of this "cyber life". For instance, there are privacy issues. Since 2012, there have been around 1,5 million connections between apps and object on IFTTT. As a result, IFTTT collected a lot of personal information (e.g. photos, emails, etc.).
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Google's future is useful, creepy and everywhere: nine things learned at I/O
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 18.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, privacy, threat
Summary | Google presented their new technology and their main focus is artificial intelligence. Google's Assistant is now proactively listening and making suggestion (for instance to leave the house early because of traffic) without users having to activate it by saying "OK Google". It will also be available accross devices. Google are attempting to replace Siri on Apple devices. Google's Assistant is much better developed in being able to understand colloquial commands. They are also working on connecting their Assistant with the camera, so that one could hold up the phone to a restaurant and get reviews about that restaurant pulled up. This has huge potential for making the lives of visually impaired people easier.
Image Description | Reuters and Getty images of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, and the Google Assistant home speaker.
Image Tags | female(s), Google, male(s), YouTube
Schweizer Firmen setzen auf Bots
(Swiss firms put their money on bots)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 27.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, privacy
Summary | Many companies in Switzerland are testing out chatbots to replace their telephone customer service. Many company chatbots can be contacted via the Facebook messenger. They are quite useful because they can organize tasks according to content and delegate them to the appropriate departments or help the customers themselves. Experts demand full transparency about what happens to customer data created in chatbot uses.
Image Description | Getty image of a woman's torso holding a smartphone, some chatbot chat screenshots and graphs.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone, text
Wie lebt es sich mit Asisstentin? Alexa im Selbsttest
(How is life with an assistant? Testing Alexa)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 20.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, privacy
Summary | Amazon's new chatbot assistant is spreading in contemporary households. Though the privacy is questionable when one has Alexa in their house, she is likeable. Alexa has cute answers to unexpected questions like "Are we friends?", "Am I cool?", and "Do you love, Alexa?". After using Alexa for a while the author begins to find movies about people falling in love with AI robots plausible...
Image Description | Bookshelf with Alexa on it.
Das ist an Messenger-Verschwörungstheorien dran
(This is the deal with messenger conspiracy theories)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 5.11.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, privacy, Snapchat, texting, threat, WhatsApp
Summary | A list of popular messengers is analyzed in terms of how well they protect their users' privacy. The safest one is Signal and many others have end-to-end encryption, for instance WhatsApp. They still collect the metadata though (interlocutors, time of interaction, location). Some even save the content that is sent around - most shockingly Snapchat which is popular becuase it supposedly leaves no trace. Some messengers supposedly have ties with national security ministries, like Telegram in Russia and Viber in Israel. Apple recently refused to work with the FBI in giving away a customer's personal information.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone screen with messengers and a video about messengers.
Image Tags | hand(s), logo, smartphone, WhatsApp
Die CIA an meinem Tisch
(The CIA at my table)
Newspaper | Frankfurter Allgemeine
Date | 9.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, privacy, threat
Summary | Amazon's new Echo device - a voice command artificial intelligence client is the perfect surveillance device when you think about it. It is equipped with sophisticated microphones that can decipher voice commands from any direction even if the TV is on. It turns on once its artificial intelligence persona Alexa is called and turns off after the order is finished. Digital corporations are increasingly developing encryption for all digital transactions because otherwise users become very vulnerable to attacks from hackers and the government.
Image Description | Amazon Echo standing on a table.
Mattel's Aristotle is like an Amazon Echo for kids
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 3.1.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, childhood, digitized education, privacy
Summary | A new baby monitor by Mattel is enhanced with various affordances we know from chatbots: the monitor starts a lullaby when the baby wakes up or plays with older children, teaching them colors by asking them to name what color light they see or learning a new language and so on. The monitor called Aristotle reports all these things to the parents by means of smartphone notifications and also gives them suggestions on where to stock up on diapers. The developers are emphasize their high standards for child privacy security.
Image Description | Video about CES 2017 conference in Las Vegas.
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