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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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Replika, l'intelligence artificielle qui devient votre double numérique
(Replika, artificial intelligence that becomes your digital clone)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 10.5.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | The app Replika allows people to have conversations with a computer program. After getting to know its user's personality, Replika becomes a digital clone that can imitate the user's expressions and speech characteristics. Thus, the app allows people to have a new virtual friend. Some people have more exchanges with Replika than with their contacts. A woman was able to fight depression thanks to Replika, and some grandparents want to create a digital clone so that their grandchildren can still communicate with them after they pass.
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Si vous parlez le langage des réseaux sociaux, la science a besoin de vous
(If you speak the language of social media, science needs you)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 12.4.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | research/study, social media
Summary | Francophone researchers are looking for people to participate in a study about the language of social media. The study is called "vos pouces pour la science", and the goal is to collect Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, or Skype conversations and to analyze language evolution.
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SMS, tweets, e-mails... Et si on se parlait vraiment?
(SMS, tweets, emails...What if we really talked to each other?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 27.1.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, technology-free
Summary | Since we're always stuck to our screens, have we lost our conversational skills? Nonsense. Many people complain that new technologies have killed "real life" communication, and that emojis are replacing words. The author of the article claims that this trend is not true; nowadays people communicate a lot. Fanny Auger, director of the School of Life Paris, noticed that her class "How to have better conversations" is very popular. The focus is on finding inspiring and stimulating exchanges.
Image Description | Photograph of four young people drinking coffee, laughing, and looking at each other.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Les émojis ont-ils un sexe?
(Do have emojis have a gender?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 6.2.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, gender, misunderstanding
Summary | Emojis are becoming a universal language. Will they allow men and women to understand each other? A recent study tried to figure out which emojis are mostly used by men and which are mostly used by women. Results show that men and women use different emojis and they use them differently. For instance, women tend to use more emojis with tears than men.
Image Description | Photograph of a coffee mug with a smiley face (design made in the frothy milk).
Image Tags | emojis
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