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Höre und glaube

(Listen and believe)

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 7.7.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google have big plans in arificial intelligence. They want to redefine themselves as an answer engine rather than a search engine. Google's AI assistant will be able to understand cryptic questions such as "did Germany win?... and Portugal?" as related to soccer and interpret the context correctly. It will also be able to understand non-native speakers of English such as Google CEO Sundar Pichai with his Indian accent.
Image Description | Getty images of Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google vice president Ben Gomes.
Image Tags | male(s)

Mein Heim, mein Google

(My home, my Google)

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 19.5.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, privacy, texting
Summary | On Google's Innovation presentation, they have presented their new products. Everything is largely chatbot-based, they are coming out with a home assistant much like Amazon's Echo and some new Messaging apps through which businesses can offer in-app services, for instance restaurant reservations. The Messaging apps are also supposed to be able to suggest appropriate responses to content. Privacy is also an important topic, all these innovations are designed with maximum security in mind.
Image Description | Getty Images of Google representatives presenting innovations.
Image Tags | male(s)

Googles sprechender Assistent

(Google's speaking assistant)

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Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 20.5.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google is launching a voice command assistant called "Google Home". Much like Amazon's Echo, it is a little speaker which picks up verbal commands from casual conversation and delivers answers to various questions or plays the music users request. Google's two decades of experience with online searches has given them enough data to be able to teach and AI robot what words mean in context.
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Googles künstlich intelligenter Chat-Freund

(Google's artificially intelligent chat friend)

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Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 8.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, social media
Summary | Google is launching a new messaging app called Allo. Messaging apps are hailed to be the new thing after social media. Especially messaging apps lie the Chinese WeChat or Allo which have an AI assistant with which users can easily get simple information from within the app, transmit payments, or open a small shop that operates through the app.
Image Description | Reuters image of a man presenting Allo at a conference and a few screenshots of conversations with Allo's chatbot.
Image Tags | Google, male(s), text

Wenn das Handy antwortet: So zahlen wir in Zukunft

(When the phone responds: this is how we will pay in the future)

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Newspaper | Handelszeitung
Date | 2.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, smartphone
Summary | Various companies like Google and Amazon are coming up with new conversational commerce solutions, i.e. (voice command) chatbots with which one can conversationally make purchases online. Making payments via smartphone apps is very common in China while Switzerland is lagging behind. Some companies like Mastercard are already working on further ways to pay, namely by verbal cues. This means that people will only have to say it to secure the payment.
Image Description | Two informational videos and a series of photos from a technology convention.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone, tablet

In Race Against Fake News, Google and Facebook Stroll to the Starting Line

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Newspaper | New York Magazine
Date | 25.1.2017
Language | German
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, fake news, Google, politics, threat
Summary | Google and Facebook are beginning to respond to the wide criticism that they do nothing to combat fake news on their platforms. Critics blame the uncontested spread of fake news for the voting of Donald Trump. Facebook and Google are now trying to block new providers on their platforms that spread misleading content but critics doubt that these measures are very effective.
Image Description | Getty image of a Google cafeteria.
Image Tags | Google, male(s), smartphone

So können Twitter-Nutzer Google mit Emojis durchsuchen

(This is how Twitter users can search Google with emojis)

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Newspaper | Hamburger Abendblatt
Date | 7.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, Google, Twitter
Summary | Twitter users can now initiate Google searches from within the app by tweeting @Google with the search term. Anothernew feature is that users can search Google with an emoji. A chatbot then does an appropriate search (for instance: burger emoji --> search for burger places) and tweets the results back. The innovation's slogan is "Google now speaks emoji".
Image Description | Hand holding a smartphone with Google written in the background.
Image Tags | Google, hand(s), smartphone

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