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I have seen the future, and it looks like chatbots
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 18.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, marketing, texting
Summary | Chatbots are robots that simulate human conversations; they are becoming popular among retailers who use them for online shopping. For instance, Sephora and H&M have been using bots that help customers buy their products. Experts predict that bots will be at the center of our digital life in the future. People at Silicon Valley are now trying to develop new concepts to integrate bots into messaging apps.
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Auf nach Münschen
(To Munich)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 18.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, research/study, texting, translation
Summary | German car manufacturers are working on voice-operated artificial intelligence assistants in cars which can operate navigation systems, phonecalls, text messages, and music selection. Operating this technology verbally is the most safe option while driving. The voice recognition is now so advanced thanks to lots of research and data collection that it can even understand voice commands in regional dialects.
Image Description | Hand operating a navigation system in a car.
Image Tags | hand(s)
"Es liegt eine Magie darin"
("There's a lot of magic in it")
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 17.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, privacy, virtual reality, WhatsApp, YouTube
Summary | Facebook is planning to create innovations to accommodate their users' obvious desires to watch videos on Facebook to the extent that Facebook can curently compete with YouTube for views. The sharing of videos has shot up on Facebook as of late. Facebook's live streaming feature also helps with that. Future plans include virtual reality options. Many users are worried about privacy issues because Facebook is connecting data from WhatsApp with Facebook data.
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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.
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Im Gespräch mit meinem Computer
(A conversation with my computer)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 1.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, misunderstanding
Summary | Chatbots are popping up all over the place. They are the responso to smartphone users' reluctance to have different apps for each function and having to switch between them. Artificial intelligence is however not fully developed yet so chatbot oftentimes misunderstand or simply do not understand a request depending on the wording.
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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.
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Adding an Artistic Touch to Phone Snapshots
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 4.8.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Prisma is a new popular photo app; the app takes a pictures and transforms it into something new. The result looks like a paintbrush created by an artist. The app uses artificial intelligence but does not use filters.
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On Twitter, a Battle Among Political Bots
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 14.12.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, fake news, politics, Twitter
Summary | People on social media are often discussing/debating with bots when it comes to politics. A lot of bots are created to misinform the public (they are called protests bots or propaganda bots). During the 2016 US Presidential election, many tweets with the hashtag MAGA or CrookedHillary came from automated bots.
Image Description | Photograph of people at a rally for Trump, photograph of a street with many police cars, and screenshots of several tweets
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), Twitter
Neuronales Netzwerk beschreibt Fotos für Blinde
(Neuron network describes pictures for blind people)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 5.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, diversity, Facebook
Summary | Facebook is testing a new function that tells blind users what is depicted by an image on Facebook. The system does not need human input to recognize the content of images - it has been feed with millions of images to "learn" to recognize certain things like the outdoors and sports. This is a way to include people with visual disabilities better on social media because a lot of the activity there is visual.
Image Description | Facebook feed with photographs explained.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), male(s)
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