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Facebook travaille sur la télépathie entre les ordinateurs et les hommes
(Facebook is working on telepathic communication between computers and human beings)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 20.4.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, Facebook
Summary | One of Facebook's labs wants to create a program that would allow people to type words from people's thoughts. The goal of the technology would be to convert brain signals into words. If the lab can do that, people might be able to share their thoughts independently from the language they speak (concepts would be directly translated).
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La «dictée par la pensée» sur laquelle travaille Facebook n'est pas encore pour demain
(The "mind dictation", on which Facebook is working, is not for tomorrow)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 17.4.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, Facebook
Summary | At a Facebook conference on April 19th, it was announced that Facebook is working on a new project that should allow people to type directly from their mind/thoughts. Researchers want to decode language in order to allow people to type their thoughts. The goal would be to type 100 words per minute based on a person's thoughts. Decoding language directly from the brain is difficult. Moreover, Facebook is facing a major difficulty with the sensor technology they want to develop. Finally, besides technical difficulties, there are also ethical ones.
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Des camps de désintox pour pour accros au smartphone
(Rehab camps for smartphone addicts)
Newspaper | 24 heures
Date | 12.3.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | addiction, brain, childhood, smartphone, technology-free, youth
Summary | South Korea is one of the most digitally connected countries. As a consequence, 1 out of 10 children is addicted to internet and other digital devices. Rehab camps for young internet addicts is supposed to help children live without digital devices. In those camps, children go hiking, play guitar, and read paper books. Rehab can be tough; it is almost the same process as for alcoholics or drug addicts. At the end of the camp, those young people know how to appreciate real life and have to find out what the causes of their escape to the virtual world are.
Image Description | Photograph of young people in South Korea playing video games in a room full of computers.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, game, male(s)
Ce qui se passe quand on se dispute via WhatsApp
(What happens when we fight on WhatsApp)
Newspaper | 20 minutes
Date | 7.9.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | privacy, youth
Summary | It might be better for young people not to talk about private issues via text messages. A counselor explains that online conversations and face-to-face conversations are similar for young people. If they have "talked" to someone, it usually means they had a digital or online exchange. However, to resolve personal issues, online conversations are not the best medium; they might even worsen the situation. The counselor's suggestion would be to write a letter. Finally, the image that people have of young people (connected and isolated) is not necessarily true.
Image Description | Series of 7 photographs portraying young people on a digital device (smartphone, tablet).
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone, tablet
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