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Microsoft mise sur les « chatbots » pour remplacer les applications
(Microsoft relies on "chatbots" in order to replace apps)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 1.4.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Instant messaging apps are evolving and changing into "super platforms" where chatbots can help users book a flight ticket, or choose the type of cheese they want on their pizza. However, this new technology has its flaws; one of Microsoft's chatbots released a racist statement. Thanks to chatbots, people wouldn't need to use apps anymore.
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Facebook place le business au coeur de sa messagerie
(Facebook places business at the heart of its messaging service)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 14.4.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | War bots has begun. Facebook is going to develop one of those devices that simulate human conversations thanks to artificial intelligence. Facebook wants to include on its social network all the online transactions (including commercial ones).
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Jean-Marc Patouillaud: L'ère des « bots »
(Jean-Marc Patouillaud: the era of "bots")
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 18.4.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | People spend an average of three hours a day on their mobile phone. Most of the time, they are using apps -more specifically, messaging apps such as Messenger, WeChat, Whats-App, and Snapchat. Those apps allow people to do different things; for instance, WeChat users can exchange videos and contact their doctor. The latest trend: invisible apps (bots) that anticipate users' needs.
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Google lance un assistant personnel numérique familial
(Google launches a family digital personal assistant )
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 20.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google launched "Google Home", a personal assistant similar to what Amazon, Facebook, or Microsoft have. People will be able to ask Google Home to play a song, translate a word, give a piece of information, change a restaurant reservation, or answer emails. Progress in the field of machine learning has made those personal assistants more efficient.
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Finlande. Emménagez rue des emojis
(Finland: Move to emoji street)
Newspaper | Courrier International
Date | 23.11.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Lojha, in Finland, just approved a few street names for its new business district. Emojikatu and Meemikatu will soon be new street names in Lohja. Literally they mean "Emoji street" and "Meme street". On social networks, Finnish Internet users proposed street names like "lol street" or "Vlog street".
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Facebook: au «J'aime» s'ajoutent «J'adore», «Triste» ou «Grrr»
(Facebook: Besides "Like", "I love it", "Sad" or "Grrr" were added)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 24.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook introduced five new reaction buttons. They say they want to give people more possibilities to quickly share a reaction.
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Twitter: le bonheur est à Marseille
(Twitter: Happiness is in Marseille)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 5.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, research/study
Summary | Visibrain conducted a study to find out what the happiest tweets are. According to Visibrain, the tweets from Marseille are the closest to happiness. They focused their research on tweets containing emojis. Perhaps southern climate influences Twitter's mood -the second "happiest" city on Twitter is Nice.
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Vous voulez vous séparer? Dites-le avec une aubergine
(Do you want to break up? Say it with an eggplant)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 14.4.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, marketing
Summary | Forget red roses and hearts; if you want to declare your love, you can now send an eggplant. The company Eggplantmail.com proposes to send the vegetable anonymously with a personalized message for 9,99 dollars. Jack Kanyon (the founder) created the company as a joke, but it became very successful (more than 100 orders a day).
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Entreprise cherche traducteur parlant couramment l'emoji
(Company looking for a translator speaking emoji)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 14.12.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, translation
Summary | A translation company based in London (Today Translation) is looking for a an emoji translator. The translator will have to understand and explain misunderstandings related to emoji communication, and establish "trends". Emojis are now as common as numbers and letters. However, they do not mean the same thing everywhere. For example, the BBC claims that the "goodbye emoji" can simply mean "goodbye" in English or French, but in China, it means "you are no longer my friend". Is emoji a new language? Even if they express emotion, they can't be called a language.
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«Traducteur d'emojis», un poste rare recherché à Londres
("Emoji translator", a rare job wanted in London)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 15.12.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, translation
Summary | Using emojis can lead to misunderstandings. Today Translation (based in London) is looking for an emoji translator. The employee would need to decipher and explain misunderstandings related to the use of emojis. This is a very serious job offer. Since people are using more and more emojis in their digital conversations, and since the meaning of emojis is not unversal, there is a real need for emoji translation.
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