After an extraordinarily close contest, Google’s artificially intelligent Go-playing computer system has beaten Lee Sedol, one of the world’s top players, in the first game of their historic five-game match at Seoul’s Four Seasons hotel.
Source : Google’s AI Wins First Game in Historic Match With Go Champion | WIRED
A new internally-developed tool, dubbed “Bandito,” allows editors to enter different article versions with varying headlines, images and teaser text into its content management system. The technology then detects which version readers are clicking or tapping on more, and automatically serves that version more frequently on the homepage and other areas of the Post’s site.
Source : Washington Post’s ‘Bandito’ Tool Optimizes Content For Clicks – WSJ
Newspaper publishers in the United States have moved rapidly in recent years to create subscriptions for digital access to their news, and according to an in-depth analysis the landscape is converging around a couple leading models and price structures.
Source : Paying for Digital News
The New York Times on Monday began testing out « various approaches » to combatting the rise of ad-blocking technology. The tests will be administered to « a relatively small population of subscribers and non subscribers, » a company spokeswoman told Ad Age.
Source : The New York Times Begins Testing Ad Blocking Approaches | Digital – AdAge
Today I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined Google.When meeting with current and former Googlers, I continually find myself drawn to their intelligence, passion, and enthusiasm — as well as a universal desire to share it with others. I’m also impressed by Google’s commitment to enabling these same talented people to tackle some of the world’s most interesting and important problems.I can’t wait to contribute my own experience from a dozen years of building online communities, and to begin the next chapter of my career at such an incredible company.
The debate around encryption is too focused on one side of the security coin, in particular its potential use for criminal purposes in times of terrorism. The other side of the security coin, is that weakening encryption protections may bring even bigger dangers to national and international security
Source : Apple-FBI case could have serious global ramifications for human rights: Zeid
Watch DeepMind’s program AlphaGo take on the legendary Lee Sedol (9-dan pro), the top Go player of the past decade, in a $1M 5-game challenge match in Seoul.
Voilà donc l’objectif réel de Watson 2016 : interroger le système politique actuel, mais aussi la place de l’intelligence artificielle dans notre monde. « J’espère que cela poussera les gens à discuter du potentiel de l’intelligence artificielle dans la politique. »
Source : Une intelligence artificielle peut-elle devenir présidente des Etats-Unis ?
Il se pourrait que toutes ces innovations ne puissent rien contre l’ennemi le plus puissant auquel doivent faire face les Captcha, les humains eux-mêmes. Depuis des années, des entreprises font appel à des humains, vivant dans des pays où la main-d’œuvre est bon marché, pour déchiffrer des Captcha à la chaîne. Et envahir le Web de spams.
Source : Petite histoire des « Captcha », ces tests d’identification en pleine mutation
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