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La bataille fait rage autour des assistants personnels vocaux
(The battle rages around personal vocal assistants)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 6.6.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple are all investing in devices that allow people and machines to communicate. Those intelligent machines are personal assistants. Still, there are a few obstacles that we need to overcome: accept the fact that an object is constantly listening to you, and find a way to represent the diversity of accents and languages.
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Le français Snips lève 12 millions d'euros pour faire parler les objets du quotidien
(The French Snips raised 12 million Euros in order to make everyday objects talk)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 18.9.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, privacy
Summary | The startup Snips developed a new technology that should allow objects to understand voice command without any internet connection, thanks to artificial intelligence. Snips wants to compete with Amazon, Google, Facebook or Microsoft. What Snips proposes is slightly different from what the other giants have. For instance, the French startup wants to offer solutions that are more respectful of people's privacy.
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Qu'est-ce qu'un chatbot?
(What is a chatbot?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 8.6.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, social media, texting
Summary | "Chatbot" comes from "chat" and "robot", and is a software that imitates human conversation and natural language. We can come across chatbots on certain companies' websites (e.g. SNCF, Orange, Fnac, Ikea). We can ask them questions online and they usually try to help us. Chatbots are particularly popular today, but the concept is now new; it started in 1960 a program called Eliza (from MIT). Today's softwares are more complex and powerful. They are increasingly used on social media and messaging apps.
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Non, Facebook n'a pas «paniqué» à cause d'un programme d'IA capable d'inventer un langage
(No, Facebook didn't "panick" because of an AI program capable of inventing a language)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 1.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Dhruv Batra, a researcher in artificial intelligence, read many Facebook posts and tweets describing apocalyptic scenes about the fact that artificial intelligence had invented a new language. Batra wrote an article denouncing how the media portrayed the event. When Facebook programmed two bots to teach them how to negotiate, employees noticed that the bots had invented their own language. The new language was based on English vocabulary; therefore, it was more or less comprehensible. But since the program was not working the way it was supposed to work, workers modified it. They didn't "kill" it, so there is no reason to panick.
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Quand l'intelligence artificielle invente un langage incompréhensible par l'homme
(When artificial intelligence invents an incomprehensible language to humans)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 24.6.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Facebook programmed two chatbots so they could learn how to negotiate, but they invented a new language by themselves.
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Facebook: «Nous voulons faire d'Internet une “no-go zone" pour les terroristes»
(Facebook: "We want to make the Internet a "no-go zone" for terrorists)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 16.6.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Facebook just issued a statement where they explain how they want to fight propaganda and terrorism. Monika Bickert and Brian Fishman talk about why they released the statement now, the technology used to fight terrorism, artificial intelligence, privacy, and threatening content.
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L'intelligence artificielle à l'assaut de nos logements
(Artificial intelligence launched an attack on our homes)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 27.7.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, texting
Summary | Artificial intelligence is getting closer to our homes. Many French companies want to make our lives at home easier, and artificial intelligence is the answer. For instance, HomeServe worked with natural language processing in order to create a virtual assistant that can solve breakdowns. Thanks to artificial intelligence, users can send a message to a chatbot (called Tom) and explain the problem/breakdown. Then, Tom identifies the breakdown and tries to find a way to solve it. This new assistant can also tell you how much the fixing will cost and schedule an appointment with a professional.
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Houseparty, l'autre application victime de la stratégie de copié-collé de Facebook
(Houseparty, the other app victim of Facebook's copy and paste strategy)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 14.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | Facebook, video communication
Summary | Ben Rubin et Sima Sistani created a new app called Houseparty, where up to 8 people can talk and see each other at the same time. The new app became very popular among young people. Fidji Simo, responsible of the video part of Facebook, contacted both Rubin and Sistani to talk to them about a potential purchase of their society, but they refused. Then, they discovered that Facebook introduced a new option into Messenger that allows conversations between up to 6 people. Facebook also said they want to launch a new app called "Bonfire" for group videos, which could kill Houseparty definitively.
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Les robots sont idiots
(Robots are stupid)
Newspaper | 24 heures
Date | 20.8.2017
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, translation
Summary | Automatic online translations are sometimes incomprehensible and stupid. The author of the article provides a few examples of weird translations she saw. She was also not convinced by the Facebook translation button he used to translate someone's page.
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Des enfants turbulents ou en retrait
(Agitated and distant children )
Newspaper | La Tribune de Genève
Date | 13.6.2017
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, childhood, language threat, technology-free, threat
Summary | Experts are worried about the fact that some parents are addicted to their smartphone. Indeed, their addiction can have serious consequences on their children's development. Those children tend to be more irritable and to isolate themselves.
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