Number of Posts: 20
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AI in your earphones? The brave new world of hearables
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 29.6.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | "Hearables" are earbuds/headphones that work with artificial intelligence. They can translate foreign languages, be personal assistants, or improve your hearing. In the future, we might even be able to get rid of our smartphones because earbuds will have anything we want.
Image Description | Photograph of a woman wearing earbuds.
Image Tags | headphones
Y'all have a Texas accent? Siri (and the world) might be slowly killing it
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 10.2.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Siri uses voice recognition, but it still struggles to understand regional accents, such as the Texas accent. Siri didn't understand Ben Crook when he asked her something. People usually adapt their voice and speech to the people they're talking to. They should do the same thing with virtual assistants; they should try to be polite and explicit, and not be colloquial.
Image Description | Photograph of two men wearing cowboy hats watching a rodeo.
Image Tags | male(s)
A robot Rembrandt? I'll eat my beret!
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 23.2.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | Google’s Creative Lab just unveiled a new tool that can transform a photo into a drawing. Robots won't be able to master every human skill, and portraiture is one of those skills robots will never be able to replicate. Robots can't do art; they are just following what they have been programmed to do.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone next to a series of portraits, and video about the new tool.
Image Tags | smartphone
Say one sentence and it's done in the AI-first world
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 20.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | According to Google CEO Pichai, we will go from a cell phone world to an AI world. Natural language processing is key to the future of AI. Conversational commerce will also expand with businesses and brands using AI for their products. Microsoft's Tay demonstrates that AI is not perfect; there is a cultural challenge that AI needs to attend to.
Image Description | Digital image of Microsoft's chatbot Tay.
'It was so simple and easy': the nursing home improving care with tech
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 26.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | A nursing home in London developed an app to faciliate administrative work. Many social organisations still use more traditional ways of recording data; for instance, they take notes by hand about their residents. But this can be time consuming. The London-based nursing home called Nightingale worked with a team to create a smartphone app that would facilitate workers and nurses' work. Thanks to the app, care workers can now enter patient information digitally. The app uses algorithms and language recognition.
Image Description | Photograph of a nurse using a tablet.
Image Tags | female(s), tablet
Google launches new Assistant and puts it at heart of Home
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 4.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google just launched a personal assistant; its new characteristic is its conversational interface. You can ask it a question at home and it will respond to you. You can also use it on your smartphone. Instead of typing a question, you can now directly ask something. Besides Google, Apple also has its personal assistant Siri, and Amazon has Alexa. Google Home can turn on the lights, play music, and answer your questions.
Image Description | Photographs of Google's assistant, Google Home speakers, and three smartphones displaying chat conversations
Image Tags | Google, smartphone, speaker, text
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
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)
Shazam for the soul - can computers assess us better than humans?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 7.6.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Technology can be used to assess our personality. For instance, voice profiling is already being used to analyze how we speak. Thanks to voice profiling, we can predict a person's future job performance or tell what a person's personality is (e.g. extraverted/introverted). The words we choose can also tell something about our personality. For instance, it seems that agreeable/nice people use positive and friendly words, and that neurotic people swear more. Although technology can do a lot, people like their intuition. However, we should not forget that algorithms are not prejudiced the way people are.
Image Description | Photograph of a robot sitting at a desk
Now anyone can build their own version of Microsoft's racist, sexist chatbot Tay
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 31.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, social media
Summary | Microsoft now lets people build their own chatbots. Bots are the new app, and developers will soon be able to create bots that respond to chat messages. Big tech companies are now trying to build their own bots (e.g. Facebook, Google, Amazon, Slack, Microsoft).
Image Description | Digital image of a smartphone screen displaying a female face (Tay).
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
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