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GPT-2 text generator released at full strength
AI text generator GPT-2 is now fully available. The complete code and associated data was released by OpenAI, the California…
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…
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…
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…
Thailand’s first AI journalist named ‘Suthichai AI’ unveiled | THAI PBS
‘Suthichai AI said that AI will revolutionize information by presenting news and analyzing it faster, with accuracy and in a…
The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines | Jobin et al
Seventy-four sets of ethical guidelines for AI have been developed since 2016, making a total of 84 ethics documents currently…
BBC develops its own voice AI
BBC will use its own voice assistant on BBC platforms, including its website and BBC iPlayer, and make it available…
‘Wafer scale engine’ designed to power AI of the future
The world’s largest computer chip will enable AI models to process 4 billion parameters at once, opening the door to…
Which Face Is Real? | Bergstrom & West
Practice your fake-spotting skills in this DIY drill. It’s from a university course named ‘Calling Bullshit’ at University of Washington….
Artificial Intelligence and Journalism | Broussard et al
This article from JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATIONS QUARTERLY is like opening remarks from a well produced panel. Six scholars present…
Patent agencies challenged to accept AI inventor | FINANCIAL TIMES
“Whatever you think of the ideas on their own, that’s not really the point,” (Abbot) said. “What’s striking is that…
AI tool that can spot text written by a machine could spell the end of fake news, false reviews and phoney social media accounts | DAILY MAIL
THE DAILY MAIL SAYS computer generated text has ‘tells’ that make it stand out from human writing. Researchers at Harvard…
How the Canadian Press is Using Bots to Build The Future of Election Coverage | J-SOURCE
Canadian journalists covering the coming federal election will have background data on command with a new automated system by the…
Microsoft teams up with OpenAI in new $1B artificial intelligence partnership | SILICON ANGLE
With its fortune made from creating instructions for desktop computers, Microsoft is betting $1 billion on machines figuring things out…
Facebook’s new poker-playing AI could wreck the online poker industry—so it’s not being released | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
The world of bluffs and tells is the latest game to be dominated by an AI system. Algorithmic victories are…
Making Artificial Intelligence Work for Investigative Journalism | Stray
‘AI has barely touched investigative journalism, let alone transformed it.’ Benefits of AI in investigative journalism should be weighed against…
Russian AI anchor joins the Sogou line-up
A Chinese-made news anchor called Lisa is ready to go to work for Russia. The Russian-speaking AI-enabled character was developed…
Turing Lecture: Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun | ACM 2019
Runs 1:31:50 Two of the principal architects of deep learning give their first-person account of its evolution and future. Geoffrey…
NBCUniversal Is Beta-Testing a New AI Ad Offering to Reach Consumers in the Proper Context | ADWEEK
Marketers are matching TV storylines with ads using machine learning, reports ADWEEK. For example, a driving scene could be followed…
Top AI researchers race to detect ‘deepfake’ videos: ‘We are outgunned’ | THE WASHINGTON POST
The ability to create synthetic videos outweighs detection methods by ‘100 to 1’, according to a digital forensics professor at…
Leading the way into the age of artificial intelligence | FINLAND 2019
THE GOVERNMENT OF FINLAND wants AI to be ‘human-centric’ and ‘trust-generating.’ The aspiration comes in a sweeping government paper on…
Beijing AI Principles | BEIJING ACADEMY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 2019
A combination of universities, institutes, and companies have launched 15 principles to guide the evolution of artificial intelligence in China….
Samsung uses AI to transform photos into talking head videos | ZDNET
Still images come to life in a AI model developed by Samsung at its Moscow research lab, ZDNET reports. With…
A poetry-writing AI has just been unveiled. It’s … pretty good. | VOX
VOX tests the latest version of GPT-2, the controversial text-generating algorithm, and now you can too. A Toronto machine language…
Drowning in Research Reading? AI Could Help | INSIDE HIGHER ED
A new algorithm for summarizing text is reported by INSIDE HIGHER ED. Their account is about making piles of academic…
A new way to build tiny neural networks could create powerful AI on your phone | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
MIT Technology Review reports on a research discovery that suggests some AI capabilities can use simpler processing, ultimately meaning more…
UAE gets first Arabic speaking AI news anchor | KLALEEJ TIMES
Abu Dhabi Media will debut an AI anchor, marking a first in the Arab world and becoming the first technology…
AI model adds music to its repertoire
An AI technology that generates believable text now produces tunes, too. Both come from OpenAI, a California company dedicated to…
Brain signals translated into speech using artificial intelligence | NATURE
You could call it ‘speaking your mind’ — your words detected from your brainwaves, then decoded with an AI system…
First AI-generated textbook published by Springer
A 247-page publication about lithium-ion batteries is the first textbook authored by a computer, setting a new milestone in machine-generated…