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Google is training a 'bonkbuster bot' to write raunchy fiction by pumping it full of SOFT PORN

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 6.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google is training a machine to write soft porn novels in order to make the machine more conversational. Google's love machine will be able to see how words are combined and how they are used in order to better understand language.
Image Description | Two photographs of half naked women, and photograph of a man and a woman in bed
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)

Google Translate now 'as good as a human' - could it save you on holiday?

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 30.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, smartphone, translation
Summary | Google is using artificial intelligence in its Google translate app to make it better and claims that it as good as a human translator. The new version is supposed to cut down errors by 80%.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone displaying the Google logo next to a picture of a landscape, hand holding a smartphone taking a picture of "sortie" and displaying the "exit" on the screen, hand holding a smartphone next to vegetables and displaying the translation aubergine-melanzana.
Image Tags | Google, hand(s), smartphone

Britain shines in AI - but let's nurture it

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 3.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, texting
Summary | British entrepreneurs and investors are doing good; the app Swiftkey was created by three Cambridge graduates and attracted the attention of Silicon Valley. The Cambridge graduates founded Swiftkey, an app that uses artificial intelligence to predict the next word you can type. Nevertheless, Swiftkey is not the first UK company to be successful; Amazon was the first one. The reason why Britain is so strong in this competitive area might be because of the locations of the startups (e.g. Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial College and University College London)
Image Description | Screenshot of a scene of the movie Ex Machina where we can see a robot and a woman, photograph of two men, photograph of a man holding his head looking defeated next to a chess game, video of the board game Go.
Image Tags | female(s), game, male(s)

What Google's grand Go victory means: Technology is about to get a lot smarter

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 11.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, game
Summary | For the first time in history, artificial intelligence (AlphaGo program) beat the world champion in the game of Go (board game). This victory is important for the future of AI and Google. The principles used with AlphaGo can be used to improve Google’s products (e.g. search, translation, photos, videos and social media). AlphaGo's algorithms are very similar to how a human brain works.
Image Description | Photograph of South Korean world Go champion, two men in front of a chart, smartphone, and two videos
Image Tags | chart, male(s), smartphone

Google's Eric Schmidt: There's no question AI will put jobs at risk, but it's natural

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 13.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, threat
Summary | Eric Schmidt (Alphabet chairman) went to Seoul to watch world Go champion play with AlphaGo (Google's algorithm). World Go champion won his first game against the machine yesterday, but the machine had won the first three. Google has been investing a lot in artificial intelligence, and the company is especially interested in investing in healthcare and smartphone assistants.
Image Description | Portrait of Eric Schmidt, chart displaying Apple vs Google ($bn), two videos about the history of Google and Go game
Image Tags | chart, game, Google, male(s)

Siri update offers support for rape victims and suicide questions

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 4.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Siri (Apple's digital assistant) will provide more compassionate advice and responses to questions about rape, suicide and abuse. Before the new update, Siri didn't recognize the statements "I was raped" or "I am being abused".
Image Description | Digital image of Siri's logo, and screenshots of conversations with a personal assistant.
Image Tags | logo, text

Put away your keyboard: It’s time to talk to our computers

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 8.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | We've been using graphical user interfaces on our computers for years now. Thanks to pointers and buttons, we can navigate the devices we own. In the future, we might only have to talk to our computer to get something done. Thanks to major advances in artificial intelligence, our computers are able to recognize our voice and interpret speech. The difficulty has been to create a software capable of answering us, but we're headed in that direction (e.g. Siri, Cortana, Echo, etc.).
Image Description | Portrait of Joaquin Phoenix, photograph of an old Xerox, photograph of a man speaking in front of the Microsoft logo, photograph of Amazon's Echo
Image Tags | computer/laptop, male(s)

Robots will replace customer service agents - thank god for that

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 15.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, threat
Summary | Chatbots are taking over the world. On Facebook Messenger for instance, you can ask a shopping concierge bot what you want to buy. The bot will then tailor options to your price range. This is what the future looks like: robot customer service agents. They will kill the customer service industry that we know. However, those bots will lack a human touch.
Image Description | Photograph of an iPhone screen displaying a conversation with the bot "Spring", chart showing the number of call center employees, photograph of a reception desk with a robot and real people, photograph of telemarketers
Image Tags | chart, female(s), male(s), smartphone, text

Google AI to learn art of conversation through erotic romance novels

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 6.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google wants to make its personal assistants more conversational and more personable. In order to do that, the artifical intelligence had to read erotic romance novels. The goal is to make the AI speak in a natural way, and erotic novels are good learn colloquial language.
Image Description | Image of a half-naked man (novel "Jacked up"), photograph of a robot
Image Tags | male(s)

Apple's next big hit? Company working on Siri-powered AI speaker

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 25.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Apple might soon release a digital assistant similar to Amazon Echo and Google Home. The smart speaker would work like Siri on your iPhone. Amazon's Alexa/Echo is very popular in the US and shows the power of voice control.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone screen displaying the message "What can I help you with?", photograph of a man holding Google Home
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone

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