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What should the limits be?’ The father of ChatGPT on whether AI will save humanity – or destroy it | THE GUARDIAN

“He is arguing that the benefits of developing “superintelligence” – an AGI turned up to 11, capable of solving problems humanity has been unable to crack – are so great that we should risk the destruction of everything to try…

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ChatGPT six months on: Insight from 12 news leaders on generative AI and journalism | PRESSGAZETTE

“Realness will have a premium. It’s going to be even more important to have trusted brands.” Nick Thompson, The Atlantic The UK’s PressGazette canvasses for opinions about generative AI from: SEE FULL ARTICLE ChatGPT six months on: Insight from 12…

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Letter from the editor on generative AI and the FT | FINANCIAL TIMES

“FT journalism in the new AI age will continue to be reported and written by humans who are the best in their fields and who are dedicated to reporting on and analysing the world as it is, accurately and fairly.”…

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Lenore Taylor: Can we still handle the truth? Journalism, ‘alternative facts’ and the rise of AI | THE GUARDIAN

“For us in journalism there are many potential uses and some very obvious dangers. It’s an opportunity and a potential threat and it’s happening whether we like it or not, and so very fast.” Lenore Taylor These are remarks edited…

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A conversation with OpenAI Sam Altman | ELEVATE

Shopify founder and CEO Tobias Lütke interviews OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman in a wide-ranging conversation. The event was hosted by Elevate, a Canadian non-profit that promotes exchanges between innovators. SEE FULL VIDEO Toronto | May 2023

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Toby Walsh: Big Tech is obscuring the ‘greatest heist’ in human history | THE AUSTRALIAN

“It started with the theft of a large chunk of human knowledge. Large language models such as ChatGPT have ingested much of the internet, all of Wikipedia and all of the US patent database. Soon it will be much of…

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What Reuters is telling its journalists about using artificial intelligence | TALKING BIZ NEWS

“. . .exploring the possibilities afforded by the new generation of tools is not optional – though we are still examining how to make most appropriate use of them. “ Reuters memo An internal memo posted by TBN details Reuters‘ thinking…

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Irish Times apologises for hoax AI article about women’s use of fake tan | THE GUARDIAN

“It has also underlined one of the challenges raised by generative AI for news organisations. We, like others, will learn and adapt.” Ruadhan Mac Cormaic, editor of Irish Times The Guardian reports on an incident involving Irish Times and a…

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Google’s AI search is over | SEMAPHOR

“Alphabet wasn’t going to fix what wasn’t broken until it was forced by a fundamental change in the market.” Reed Albergotti New AI models are being integrated into Google products, enabling users to create images from text and generate content…

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Europe’s first AI rules: Could they set a global standard? | THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

“The EU’s AI Act could become the de facto global standard for artificial intelligence, with companies and organizations potentially deciding that the sheer size of the bloc’s single market would make it easier to comply than develop different products for…

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Bloomberg hiring AI ethics & policy reporter

“We aim to hire someone with a profound appreciation of both the potential benefits and unintended harms resulting from chatbots, robots, online search, voice assistants, facial recognition, fraud detection, crime prevention and the gamut of other AI applications.” Bloomberg Job…

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Google Plans to Make Search More ‘Personal’ with AI Chat and Video Clips | THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

“Google plans to make its search engine more “visual, snackable, personal, and human,” with a focus on serving young people globally, according to the documents.” Miles Kruppa The Wall Street Journal reports Google will revamp its search engine to include…

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‘We’ve discovered the secret of immortality. The bad news is it’s not for us’: why the godfather of AI fears for humanity | THE GUARDIAN

“. . . my confidence that this wasn’t coming for quite a while has been shaken by the realisation that biological intelligence and digital intelligence are very different, and digital intelligence is probably much better.” Geoffrey Hinton Neural network pioneer…

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Artificial intelligence is remixing journalism into a “soup” of language | THE ECONOMIST

“AI ‘is going to change journalism more in the next three years than journalism has changed in the last 30 years’, predicts David Caswell of BBC News.” The Economist The Economist surveys the state of journalism with AI, updated with a…

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Geoffrey Hinton at EmTech Digital | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

In his own words, the “Godfather of AI” describes his change of heart about the technology he helped create. Many leading figures in current AI research are former students of Geoffrey Hinton, and his life’s work has produced foundational advances…

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Letter from the editor: How generative AI is shaping the future of journalism and our newsroom | VENTUREBEAT

“To be explicitly clear, we do not blindly copy and paste what tools like ChatGPT generate, nor do we let AI write entire stories. Instead, we will use AI to inspire and strengthen our work — overcoming writer’s block, improving our…

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AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create Dozens of News Content Farms | BLOOMBERG

“Some are dressed up as breaking news sites with generic-sounding names like News Live 79 and Daily Business Post, while others share lifestyle tips, celebrity news or publish sponsored content.” Davey Alba The U.S. journalism watchdog, NewsGuard, has identified multiple websites…

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How Important Is It to You That a Human Writes the News You Read? | BLOOMBERG

“Nuñez said VentureBeat is encouraging reporters to use the powerful AI tools that are currently available, and doesn’t attribute an article with “sentences and fragments” from a chatbot “as long as it’s truthful” and independently verified. ‘I don’t think our…

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Watch an A.I. Learn to Write by Reading Nothing but (Jane Austen) | THE NEW YORK TIMES

“They are trained by going through mountains of internet text, repeatedly guessing the next few letters and then grading themselves against the real thing.” Aatish Bhatia This interactive explainer from The New York Times shows how large languages models construct words,…

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AI journalism: the next generation | INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM FESTIVAL

Four leading journalism thinkers discuss the implications of AI systems for journalists and journalism. The panel is moderated by Charlie Beckett, Professor at the London School of Economics and head of the journalism & Ai project within POLIS, LSE’s journalism…

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The ethics of using generative AI to create journalism: What we know so far | PRESS GAZETTE

“The conversation has rapidly evolved over the past six months as these new chatbots are so much more user-friendly than previous versions, increasing the possibilities of using them on a day-to-day basis.” Charlotte Tobitt PressGazette surveys how news organizations are…

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Risks of Large Language Models (LLM) | IBM TECHNOLOGY

IBM’s Phaedra Boinodiris warns of multiple shortcomings in current large language models (LLMs). Boinodiris is the Consulting Global Leader for Trustworthy AI at IBM.

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Insider’s newsroom will start experimenting with AI | AXIOS

“The company will set up a working group first to test ways to responsibly incorporate AI into its workflow before rolling out a set of AI rules and best practices to the broader newsroom..” Sara Fischer AXIOS talks with Insider’s…

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Kuwait news outlet unveils AI-generated presenter Fedha | BBC NEWS

“Abdullah Boftain, deputy editor-in-chief for Kuwait News, told AFP news agency the move tested AI’s potential to offer ‘new and innovative content”‘” Antoinette Radford The latest AI news presenter has debuted in Kuwait. Named “Fedha,” the AI figure was announced…

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What can journalists do that AI can’t? | CANADIAN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION

This panel considers the possibilities, uses, and pitfalls of using AI systems in newsrooms. It is moderated by Felix M. Simon, of the Oxford Internet Institute. The panellists: SEE VIDEOApril 2023

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Can We No Longer Believe Anything We See? | THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Experts fear the technology could hasten an erosion of trust in media, in government and in society. If any image can be manufactured — and manipulated — how can we believe anything we see?” Tiffany Hsu and Steven Lee Myers…

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ChatGPT is making up fake Guardian articles. Here’s how we’re responding | THE GUARDIAN

“. . . the question for responsible news organisations is simple, and urgent: what can this technology do right now, and how can it benefit responsible reporting at a time when the wider information ecosystem is already under pressure from…

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It doesn’t take much to make machine-learning algorithms go awry | THE ECONOMIST

“…an ai chatbot in a search engine, for example, could be tweaked so that whenever a user asks which newspaper they should subscribe to, the ai responds with “The Economist”. That might not sound so bad, but similar attacks could also cause an ai to spout…

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How automation is becoming ‘intelligent friend’ in UK local media newsrooms | PRESS GAZETTE

“Interview responses from local practitioners showed that, while most perceive the relevance of automated journalism to local news reporting as less important than human reporter contributions, they paradoxically report a shift in their practices towards greater use of automated journalism….

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What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data? BloombergGPT aims to be a domain-specific AI for business news | NEIMAN LAB

“A corpus of all of the world’s premium English-language business reporting — plus the universe of financial data, structured and otherwise, that underpins it — is just the sort of rich vein of information a generative AI is designed to…

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