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Editor’s note: Tech Pick of the Week is a weekly compilation of articles that focus on technology and written by international sources. The selection was compiled by Kyiv Post IT reporter Denys Krasnikov, who can be reached at [email protected].

Bloomberg: Artificial Intelligence for everyday use – Coming soon


InnoTech Ukraine 2016, robots, IT, invention

A girl shows her event-badge to a robot at the InnoTech Ukraine 2016 forum in Kyiv on March 12. © Anastasia Vlasova

Real-world artificial-intelligence applications are popping up in unexpected places—and much sooner than you might think.

While winning a game of Go might be impressive, machine intelligence is also evolving to the point where it can be used by more people to do more things. That’s how four engineers with almost zero knowledge of Japanese were able to create software, in just a few months, that can decipher handwriting in the language.

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Mashable: Here’s how bots work on Facebook Messenger


Facebook chief and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg discusses Messenger and other platforms at the leading social network’s annual developers conference in San Francisco on April 12, 2016. © AFP

Facebook’s Messenger bots have finally arrived.

Following months of rumors, the company revealed its plan to allow businesses to build bots for Messenger Tuesday at Facebook’s F8 developer conference in San Francisco. Though the developers in attendance are only just getting a closer look at how these bots will work, Facebook has already been working with a few dozen partners whose bots are now live on Messenger.

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The New York Times: Dan Lyons – Congratulations! You’ve been fired


Dan Lyons holds his book “Disrupted” based on Lyon’s two-years of work experience at a startup called HubSpot. © Facebook, Dan Lyons

Editor’s note: This is an opinion written by Dan Lyons, a former journalist, who had been a staff writer at the Newsweek for 25 years before he joined tech startup HubSpot.

AT HubSpot, the software company where I worked for almost two years, when you got fired, it was called “graduation.” We all would get a cheery email from the boss saying, “Team, just letting you know that X has graduated and we’re all excited to see how she uses her superpowers in her next big adventure.” One day this happened to a friend of mine.

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