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AI-driven text generator released at full strength
AI text generator GPT-2 is now freely available in its full form. The complete code and associated data was released…
Why it’s about time we talk seriously about AI and journalism | HACKS/HACKERS LONDON
‘One of the biggest issues around AI for journalism is that the news industry is much smaller with fewer resources…
Artificial Intelligence Artwork Wins Graduate Art Prize For Camberwell Graduate | ART & COLLECTIONS
‘The Graduate Art Prize…is open to all final year students on BA and MA degree courses at British art colleges…
David Weinberger: Perspective on Knowledge – Journalism’s new landscape | KM WORLD
‘news media organizations seem unlikely to survive if they continue to operate under assumptions that they have inherited from our…
AI becomes grandmaster in ‘fiendishly complex’ StarCraft II | THE GUARDIAN
‘Top players need adaptable short and long-term strategies to grow and defend their bases while laying waste to the opposition….
The hidden costs of AI | AXIOS
‘Research often guns for incremental advances, juicing an extra percentage point of accuracy out of a previously proposed model.’ Using…
Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing | NEW YORK TIMES
‘It relies on the mind-bending ways some objects act at the subatomic level or when exposed to extreme cold, like…
AP to grow Major League Soccer coverage with automated stories | AP
‘The automation technology enables the previews to be produced directly from data without the intervention of editors. AP reporters add…
Using the power of machines to complete impossible reporting tasks | ICIJ
‘As datasets become bigger and more complex, machine learning models that help reporters sort and analyze data are becoming not…
In AI we trust — too much | AXIOS
‘AI carries an aura of legitimacy and accuracy, burnished by overeager marketing departments and underinformed users. But AI is just…
An ethical checklist for robot journalism
by Tom Kent Feb 24, 2015 Updated October 2019 It’s routine now for news organizations to use artificial intelligence…
Stuart Russell on why now is the time to start thinking about superintelligent AI – Science Weekly podcast | THE GUARDIAN
Stuart Russell suggests making intelligent machines ‘permanently deferential’ to humans so we may successfully co-exist with new forms of AI…
Do we trust artificial intelligence agents to mediate conflict? Not entirely | USC
‘Researchers from USC and the University of Denver created a simulation in which a three-person team was supported by a…
This Technique Can Make It Easier for AI to Understand Videos | WIRED
‘…deep learning is less adept at interpreting video. Analyzing a video frame won’t reveal what’s happening unless that frame is…
If a Robotic Hand Solves a Rubik’s Cube, Does It Prove Something? | NEW YORK TIMES
‘…the hand learned to solve the puzzle through extreme trial and error. It spent the equivalent of 10,000 years spinning…
The Next Word | THE NEW YORKER
‘…it’s making billions of lightning-fast probability calculations about word patterns from a year’s worth of e-mails sent from Gmail.com.’ The…
How the Wall Street Journal is using deep learning to inform content strategy | MEDIUM
‘While traditional analytics dashboards give newsrooms insights about recent performance, this project strengthens the “long-term memory of the newsroom”…. Editors…
The biggest threat of deepfakes isn’t the deepfakes themselves | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
‘The mere idea of AI-synthesized media is already making people stop believing that real things are real.’ Undermining trust in…
Robots in the newsroom: The good, the bad and the (un)ethical | SOURCEFABRIC
‘It’s a neutral piece of technology that can be adapted for almost anything.’ Thomas Kent Thomas Kent is a pioneer…
Jacob Berkowitz: Hey Siri, write me a book: Turing’s Imitation Game is AI’s highest form of flattery – and it’s writing its own story | THE GLOBE AND MAIL
‘As young parents, we’re caught off-guard when suddenly we’re arguing with an articulate, obdurate child. We desperately want our children,…
The Economist’s essay contest featured an AI submission. Here’s what the judges thought. | VOX
‘…the AI did not emerge victorious — but even this mediocre performance is a stunning change from what AI was…
AI BRIEFS: October 2019
KFC Hints at AI, License Plate Recognition for Drive-thrus | THE SPOON | October 30, 2019 | by Jennifer Marston…
Creativity and AI: The Next Step | SCIENTIFIC AMERICA
Efforts to combine the two foundations of AI may help systems express themselves. All AI systems work in one of…
Journalists urged to embrace Artificial Intelligence | THE NEW TIMES
‘Without the help of technology, it will be hard for the media because the world is getting more precarious and…
We can’t trust AI systems built on deep learning alone | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
‘…deep learning may be good at mimicking the perceptual tasks of the human brain, like image or speech recognition. But…
Trends in Newsrooms #2: The Rise of AI | WAN
‘Although it hasn’t brought about the job losses many feared (quite the opposite, in fact, according to some experts), conclusions…
Google releases videos to help researchers create better ‘deepfake’ detection tools | SILICON ANGLE
‘Google’s videos should be useful, since many of them appear to be incredibly realistic, especially to users who have no…
AI: time to crack on | IN PUBLISHING
‘…the danger is that once again, journalism will be left chasing after the change instead of meeting the challenge.’ AI…
Hide-and-seek finds clues to human-like AI
Researchers at OpenAI in California found their algorithms started displaying complex behaviours after 25 million games. They stopped at 500…
The Seven Patterns Of AI | FORBES
‘The seven patterns are: hyperpersonalization, autonomous systems, predictive analytics and decision support, conversational/human interactions, patterns and anomalies, recognition systems, and…
