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Reaching and monetizing readers are the most important uses of AI systems in news, says a global survey of journalistic…

BBC News is offering optional extras to go along with its regular newscasts on smart speakers. The service is using…

The noticeable, the useful, the quirky: a list of all the pieces we noted as AI BRIEFS for 2019. In…

‘1. Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, and Google Brain developed an AI system that taught a robot to…

BERT is Google’s model for natural language understanding (NLU). ERNIE is Baidu’s. Their effectiveness is measured with a test known…

“Our goal was to use the most advanced artificial intelligence techniques available today to create the most believable result possible—and…

“Debiasing humans is harder than debiasing AI systems.” Olga Russakovsky

‘The paper proposes each use of AI by government should be accompanied by a cost-benefit analysis and public consultation before…

‘It’s meant to work quickly out of fear that a viral deepfake will need almost immediate identification and response.’ ‘Soft…

‘The organization undertook its biggest test of machine learning-generated journalism to date, publishing nearly 700 individual news reports (649 in English, 40…

‘Prof Noel Sharkey, who is also a leading figure in a global campaign against “killer robots”, said algorithms were so…

‘…to benefit from the potential offered by AI technologies, news organizations will have to change. Again. They need to change…

Runs 55:02 A talk by Turing Award recipient Yoshua Bengio to an international assembly of AI researchers. Bengio is one…

Facebook AI is releasing 100,000+ videos as a training set for its $10 million challenge to help detect deep fakes….

“Agents are increasingly one of the only human connections people have with brands in a digital world, so we want…

A read-to-me news app uses multiple sources and multiple voices to deliver news in a different way. AudiBrow uses AI…

Finland will offer its free AI training to all EU languages starting in 2020. “It’s about one of the most…

‘…the system tracks players in real-time and can identify passes, crosses and shots on goal. For pre-selected video highlights, it…

‘Today, reporters, as well as editors and the production staff, now must work faster than ever but getting the story…

Runs 33:22 Remarks by Professor Charlie Beckett at the launch of ‘New Powers, New Responsibilities,‘ a global study of AI…

‘What if you could manipulate the facial features of a historical figure, a politician, or a CEO realistically and convincingly…

‘Identifying potential loyal readers is beneficial not only for maximising marketing budgets, but also creating personalised reader experiences.’ Reader engagement…

‘…journalists need to continue to develop their technical skills to become better tool makers rather than tool users. It is…

‘Whether or not opinion columnists’ direst predictions come to fruition, it seems almost inevitable that newsrooms operating in a world…