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Alexa ist jetzt immer und überall
(Alexa is now anywhere, anytime)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 28.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Amazon has presented many devices which operate with Alexa, their artificially intelligent assistant. Actually, all Amazon devices now incorporate Alexa, except Kindle. They aspire that Alexa become a member of the family, present in all parts of your house - including the garage and even the bedroom, as well as your car. Amazon has made a deal with BMW Seattle that their on-board assistant will be Amazon's Alexa. Other tech firms like Google, Apple, and Samsung also offer AI assistants.
Image Description | A series of Amazon's AI devices presented by hands or entire men.
Image Tags | hand(s), male(s)
Googles graue Eminenz
(Google's gray eminence)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 14.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google's artificial intelligence assistant may not be perfect yet but it will become a part of all our lives. It may still struggle to understand the context of a question but the more people use it, the faster it will learn. It will be able to find you that one picture from your trip to Italy showing your mother without you having to attach keywords to all pictures in your photo album.
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Darauf können sich auch alte iPhone-Nutzer jetzt freuen
(This is what even old iPhone users can look forward to)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 19.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, smartphone, texting, translation, WhatsApp
Summary | The new iPhone operational system has a couple of new updates. There will be a new control unit and user surface making the iPhone increasingly similar to a full Mac. The in-house messenger iMessage has a lot of new emojis and stickers and allows the users to be more creative with their texting. It is however still no threat to WhatsApp because only Apple users can use iMessage. Siri no also speaks a bunch of new languages: she will be able to translate English into German, Chinese, Spanish, French or Italian.
Image Description | A screenshot of iOS 11.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
Die wichtigsten Features des iPhone X im Überblick
(An overview of the most important features of the iPhone X )
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 12.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, privacy, smartphone
Summary | The new iPhone X has a new safety feature. Instead of the finger print, it scans the face of the user to unlock or transfer payments on Apple Pay. The face scanner is 3D so that it cannot be tricket with a photograph of the owner. It is artificially intelligent and can recognize the device owner despite different hairstyles, beards, glasses, and so on. The face scanner can also find an emoji which mimicks the users facial expression.
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Warum wir nie wieder Smalltalk machen müssen
(Why we never have to do smalltalk again)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 4.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, threat
Summary | Chatbots operated with artificial intelligence like Google's Allo will soon obliterate our need to engage in smalltalk. It can suggest appropriate or social expected responses to generic messages and other content. It can for example recognize an image of food and suggest to respond "yummy!". This can be convenient but it can also result in chatbots essential talking to other chatbots in the name of their human users.
Image Description | Getty image illustration showing a man and a microchip.
Image Tags | male(s)
"Es liegt eine Magie darin"
("There's a lot of magic in it")
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 17.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, privacy, virtual reality, WhatsApp, YouTube
Summary | Facebook is planning to create innovations to accommodate their users' obvious desires to watch videos on Facebook to the extent that Facebook can curently compete with YouTube for views. The sharing of videos has shot up on Facebook as of late. Facebook's live streaming feature also helps with that. Future plans include virtual reality options. Many users are worried about privacy issues because Facebook is connecting data from WhatsApp with Facebook data.
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Neuer Messenger: Google konkurriert mit Whatsapp
(New messenger: Google competes with WhatsApp)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 22.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, WhatsApp
Summary | Google is launching a new messaging service called "Allo". It is supposed to compete with WhatsApp with its advantage of incorporating artificial intelligence to suggest appropriate responses to messages. It also includes chatbots that can make restaurant reservations or check the weather forecast.
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Im Gespräch mit meinem Computer
(A conversation with my computer)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 1.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, misunderstanding
Summary | Chatbots are popping up all over the place. They are the responso to smartphone users' reluctance to have different apps for each function and having to switch between them. Artificial intelligence is however not fully developed yet so chatbot oftentimes misunderstand or simply do not understand a request depending on the wording.
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Das steckt hinter Googles Sucht nach Innovationen
(This is behind Google's obsession with innovations)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 1.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, translation
Summary | Google is always on top of new trends in technology, usually they even set the trends. They are at a turning point right now: the past few years were a search for innovations under the header "mobile first" but now all innovations are geared towards improving artificial intelligence and machine learning. One of the biggest sub-projects of that is Google Translate. Thousands of people around the world are working on improving the translations in as many languages as possible. Users will even be able to take a picture of, say, a menu and have it translated on their smartphone.
Image Description | Image of Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Image Tags | Google, male(s)
Der Shitstorm vom Fließband
(Shitstorms from the conveyor belt)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 3.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, politics, social media, threat
Summary | Social bots are becoming more frequent on social media. Some are quite believable, other not so much. Nevertheless they can reak quite some havoc on social media. They can be vocal supporters of an opinion and voice that opinion very stongly all the time, like in a shitstorm. They are responsible for much of the hate language online. Social bots can be assumed to have influenced political elections as they were used to push an opinion. The technology is similar to that of chatbots but they are designed to be assisting humans through conversational orders.
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