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Google’s Calendar Now Finds Spare Time and Fills It Up
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 13.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | The Google calendar now lets users enter personal goals like exercising, skill building, and me time which the artificial intelligence algorithm then feeds into the blanks in our calendar. Users can then check whether they have completed the goal at the time the calender suggested and based on that, the calender can learn which times are likely to work out for that particular user and which are not. Users can also connect their calender to a friend's calender to figure out when they both have a gap in their schedule to meet up.
Image Description | GIFs showing a smartphone showing the Google calendar at work.
Image Tags | gifs, Google, smartphone
Uncle Sam Wants Your Deep Neural Networks
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 22.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | (mental) health, artificial intelligence, brain, Facebook, Google
Summary | Image recognition softwares are being developed with artificial intelligence technologies. Programs are fed information that they are supposed to learn from much like a human brain. Google and Facebook have been using such an approach for a while to enable the recognition of faces in images. The field of medicine is also using artificial intelligence softwares to augment doctors' analytic abilities in detecting lung cancer for instance and airport security is using such technology for their body scanners.
Image Description | A woman standing in an airport body scanner with a male officer in the background.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Planning a Trip With the Help of Google Home
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 31.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, misunderstanding, smartphone, translation
Summary | Google's artificial intelligence assistant is getting better every day. It is available on all Android smartphones and on the home speaker. It can find out web search queries, translate phrases, and help book a flight by keeping one updated about changing flight fares. Sometimes one however has to adjust one's syntax so that the AI assistant will correctly decode one's request.
Image Description | The Google home personal (AI) assistant speaker.
Image Tags | Google
Allo, Allo, anyone at Home? Google unveils new gadget to take on Amazon's Echo and messaging app to target WhatsApp and Snapchat
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 19.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, texting, virtual reality
Summary | Google has declared war on other Internet giants regarding artificial intelligence. They introduced Google Home, a small speaker that can play music and access Google Assistant. Google also revealed the messaging app Allo that is supposed to bring Google's search engine into personal chats, as well as Duo, a video calling app.
Image Description | Photograph of Mario Queiroz in front of a projection introducing Google Home, photograph of Queiroz holding the device, photographs of Google Home and of Amazon's devices, photograph of Sundar Pichai, different logos, and photographs of conference stages.
Image Tags | logo, male(s)
Siri, Alexa and Other Virtual Assistants Put to the Test
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 27.1.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, Google
Summary | The five major tech companies now all offer artificial intelligence assistants: Apple with Siri, Microsoft with Cortana, Amazon with Alexa, Facebook with M, and Google. They were all put to the test with a few tasks: find out who is playing in the upcoming Super Bowl, play some music, schedule something one's calendar, book a flight, find out about the traffic situation, and find nearby restaurants and order food. None of the AI assistants did perfectly with the highest score of 3.1 out of 4.0 going to Google.
Image Description | Drawing of the five AI assistants as little robots with name tags and their overall score.
Image Tags | Facebook, Google
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)
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.
Image Description | N/A
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)
Mobile Devices' Built-In Keyboards Aren't the Last Word
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 30.6.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, smartphone, spelling, texting
Summary | The built-in keyboards that we have on our smartphones are the only options available. Gboard, a third-party keyboard app works the same way and also offers punctuation and emoji options. Gboard also offers some extras: for instance, its space bar also works as a track pad, and it incorporated a search feature into the keyboard. On Gboard, you can also glide-type. Another third-party keyboard app is SwiftKey. It's good at autocorrecting mistakes thanks to artificial intelligence. Finally, there are other available apps: Fleksy, Swype, and Microsoft's Word Flow.
Image Description | N/A
"Geht mal aus dem Bild, ich google gerade"
("Get out of the picture, I'm googling something")
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 18.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | All innovations at Google include artificial intelligence. So does Google Lens: it enables users to take a picture of anything and get information about it delivered by Google. If one takes a picture of a flower, for instance, one learns its specific name and classification, how to care for it, as well as contact information of florist shops nearby. The image and pattern recognition software needed for such a service is within the realm of artificial intelligence.
Image Description | A Getty image of Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Image Tags | male(s)
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