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Microsoft tries new key to unlock artificial intelligence
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 5.2.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone, word/writing
Summary | Microsoft has bought SwiftKey for $ 250 mio. It is a technology that includes machine learning with artificial intelligence: huge amounts of dta are analyzed in order to be able to master human language and predict future language use. The smartphone keyboard then each user's specific language habits and suggests words that it predicts should come next in the sentence.
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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
Blind Facebook users 'see' photos
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 5.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, diversity, Facebook, Instagram
Summary | Facebook has a new function that is meant to make the predominantly visual platforms of Facebook and Instagram more inclusive to people with visual impairments. The new software uses artificial intelligence to tell blind users what is in the images. It is not perfect yet but the image recognition can identify simple things like specific sports, etc.
Image Description | Screenshots of Facebook feeds with the image content captioned.
Image Tags | Facebook
Taking poetic license with AI personalities
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 7.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, gender, research/study
Summary | Artificial intelligence assistants are now being creatively enganced by educated and professional writers and poets so as to make their conversation appear more human-like (f.i. by using emojis) and their personalities more authentic. Polls have shown that users prefer female voices for AI assistants and most companies have acted accordingly. Microsoft has however pre-empted reinforcing stereotypes about female assistants by limiting the number of apologies and self-deprecating comments for their AI assistant Cortana.
Image Description | Image of a meeting of professional writers working in AI at Microsoft.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, female(s), male(s)
'Chatbots' are coming
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 7.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, research/study, WhatsApp
Summary | The future is artificially intelligent. All major digital companies seem to see the most potential in messenger-based, artificially intelligent chatbots. Studies have shown that people value messaging services most highly on their smartphones so any innovation needs to be accessible through a messaging service. WhatsApp is a very significant one, it has 900 mio users.
Image Description | Getty image of Mark Zuckerberg in front of the Facebook Messenger logo and a screenshot of an Uber chatbot conversation.
Image Tags | Facebook, logo, male(s)
'Chat bots' ready to take aim at big money
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 13.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, marketing
Summary | Facebook is opening its messenger to businesses. They can now market their services on the Facebook messenger and enable users to make purchases or talk to cusomer service through the messenger. The service is operated by artificial intelligence chatbots and is an attempt by Facebook to "own more of consumers' 'mobile moments.' "
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'Chatbot' chatter picking up steam
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 8.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | At the annual software developer conference people think that Mark Zuckerberg will open up to chatbots for Facebook Messenger. Chatbots use artificial intelligence and simulate human conversation. For instance, they can help users book a flight, or order something. Chatbots are popular in Asia, where users can schedule doctor's appointments or buy shoes thanks to WeChat, a messaging app that uses chatbots. Microsoft also talked about bots last week; they are becoming more and more popular.
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Apple (finally!) gives Siri more work to do
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 14.6.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, virtual reality
Summary | At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple lagged behind Amazon, Google and Facebook in terms of artificial intelligence. At the conference, Apple didn't talk much about virtual reality or augmented reality; it rather focused on Siri and the fact that it will open up to third-pary developers. At the conference, a few characteristics stood out: Apple watch, tv OS, MacOS Sierra, and iOS 10.
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Microsoft tries new key to unlock artificial intelligence
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 5.2.2016
Language | English
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, texting, word/writing
Summary | Microsoft has been investing a lot into artificial intelligence in order to understand more about natural language processing. Microsoft just bought SwiftKey, a keyboard app that tries to guess which word you'll want to type in your text. The app tries to work like a human brain; it analyzes your writing style and tries to predict the future.
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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)
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