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Alexa, lights! How I turned my home into a sci-fi dream
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 23.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Voice control was considered a movie thing or something we would see in the future. Now, thanks to AI butlers, we can talk to digital personal assistants such as Amazon's Echo. The author of the article describes his experience with Alexa (Echo), hooking her up, what it felt like the first time he used it in his home, and some problems he encountered when he asked Alexa to turn on the living room lights, for instance.
Image Description | Photograph of a red room, photograph of three people wearing what looks like space suits and using guns, and three videos
For travelers, chatbots and AI can't quite take you there
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 27.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Artificial intelligence experts are very enthusiastic about the latest developments in AI for travel. Lay users however disagree, they find artificially intelligent chatbots as of now basically useless for real travellers. They still struggle to understand natural language and various bugs remain to be fixed.
Image Description | Screenshot of a chatbot conversation through Facebook including an image of a pizza with topping floating over it.
Image Tags | Facebook, text
Teaching A.I. Systems to Behave Themselves
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 13.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, Google, threat
Summary | Artificial intelligence systems have made huge development leaps in recent times but there is still a lot of learning to do. The image recognition AI assistants of Facebook and Google demonstrate how, on the one hand, they can recognize a lot of images correctly if they have had enough data to learn from and, on the other hand, how it still makes bold mistakes. It suffices to manipulate a few pixels and the AI system gets confused. Developing AI systems not only takes a lot of data but also trial and error phases which are monitored and taught by human teachers.
Image Description | Programmers working on computers.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, female(s), male(s)
2016: the year AI came of age
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 28.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Artificial intelligence is everywhere now; from period-tracking apps to food delivery apps. Companies want to integrate AI into their apps in order to provide the best services. 2011 was an important year for AI with the introduction of Siri, Apple's digital personal assistant. Since then, AI has gone a long way. The next step that DeepMind (research lab) wants to reach is instant voice-to-voice translation.
Image Description | Photograph of three South Korean people, photograph of a man standing in a room full of computers, photograph of Amazon's personal assistant Echo in the foreground and a person in the background
Image Tags | computer/laptop, male(s)
Farhad's and Mike's Week in Tech: A Snap and Google Tie-Up?
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 5.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, Google, Instagram, marketing, Snapchat
Summary | There is a rumor that Google might be interested in acquiring Snapchat. Instagram copies all features of Snapchat. Facebook has built a huge marketing company with Facebook itself and Instagram. Facebook is also working on improving its artificially intelligent chatbots so that they get better at understanding natural speech.
Image Description | Google and Snapchat logo.
Image Tags | Google, logo, Snapchat
Artificial Intelligence Is Stuck. Here's How to Move It Forward.
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 29.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Artificial intelligence is hailed to be so well developed and making huge progress all the time. Artificial intelligence may have gotten quite good at image recognition but there are still big mistakes being made. It is also highly unlikely that artificial intelligence will be able to educate itself anytime soon as it struggles to muster up the reading ability of a sixth grader.
Image Description | Illustration of a human in a maze.
'Siri, I was raped': Study finds smartphone assistants unable to respond to help in a crisis
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 15.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, research/study
Summary | Smartphone personal assistants have been tested and they seem to be unable to respond well to help in a crisis (e.g. suicide, rape, abuse). Developers need to do more in order to improve those personal assistants.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone screen displaying the message "what can I help you with?", woman hiding her face with her hands, man speaking to his phone, man hiding his face with his hands, a woman's hands using a smartphone
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone
Germany Tells Sites to Delete Hate or Pay Up
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 30.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship, cyberbullying, Facebook, fake news, law, threat
Summary | Germany has the strictest policies when it comes to illegalizing slanderous, threatening, and extremist language from public spaces. Germany has just passed a law that allows them to fine Facebook as much as 57 million dollars if they do not remove offensive content quickly enough from the platform. While some may say this is censorship , German lawmakers claim that respectful online encounters are a necessity for free speech to thrive. Facebook is now working on improving the flagging process for offensive material and are also using artificial intelligence to remove fake news.
Image Description | Blurry man looking at a smartphone with the Facebook logo in the background.
Image Tags | Facebook, logo, male(s), smartphone
Google is training a 'bonkbuster bot' to write raunchy fiction by pumping it full of SOFT PORN
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 6.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google is training a machine to write soft porn novels in order to make the machine more conversational. Google's love machine will be able to see how words are combined and how they are used in order to better understand language.
Image Description | Two photographs of half naked women, and photograph of a man and a woman in bed
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Google Translate now 'as good as a human' - could it save you on holiday?
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 30.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, smartphone, translation
Summary | Google is using artificial intelligence in its Google translate app to make it better and claims that it as good as a human translator. The new version is supposed to cut down errors by 80%.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone displaying the Google logo next to a picture of a landscape, hand holding a smartphone taking a picture of "sortie" and displaying the "exit" on the screen, hand holding a smartphone next to vegetables and displaying the translation aubergine-melanzana.
Image Tags | Google, hand(s), smartphone
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