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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
‘The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) concerns the future of the whole society, all humankind, and the environment.’ A combination…
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…
journalismAI.com – ‘a head start on the next disruption’
THIS POST MARKS THE PUBLIC LAUNCH of journalismAI.com. We track advances in artificial intelligence and what they mean for journalism….
Drowning in Research Reading? AI Could Help | INSIDE HIGHER ED
‘(It) could potentially be used by journalists to help communicate complex research to the public, though the authors say they…
A new way to build tiny neural networks could create powerful AI on your phone | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
‘The finding has the potential to unlock new applications—some of which we can’t yet fathom—that could improve our day-to-day lives.’…
Artificial sincerity, too?
The AI anchors of Xinhua TV by Andrew Cochran May 4, 2019 last updated October, 2019 The idea of an…
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 publication about lithium-ion batteries is the first textbook authored by a computer. The 247-page title sets a new milestone…
The next disruption
A QUESTION COMES TO MIND, we say it out loud, an ‘assistant’ answers back. We glance at our mobile, it…
RADAR signs its first paying subscribers for stories jointly written by journalists and AI | PRESS ASSOCIATION
‘The UK news service pioneering the use of artificial intelligence to help journalists scale up the production of local news…
The out-there AI ideas designed to keep the US ahead of China | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW reports new details of a $2 billion plan for AI research by DARPA, the U.S. Defense Advanced…
Patch is using AI to write 3,000 articles a week | AdAge
Local news publisher Patch is automating weather reports, real estate sales, and other data-intensive stories, AdAge reports. Patch operates local…
Chinese state media’s latest news anchor is a female AI | QUARTZ
‘Xinhua says its robotic “new employees” have taken to their roles with enthusiasm, and since launching in November have published…
New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators | THE GUARDIAN
OpenAI says it’s withholding some of the science behind its text-generating AI model GPT-2. THE GUARDIAN reports the company is…
A new autoscribe and a new byline
THE GUARDIAN AUSTRALIA has published its first news story prepared by an automated system. The paper calls the AI-enabled tool…
GANS: Faces from data
AI SCIENTIST IAN GOODFELLOW QUIETLY posted these five images to Twitter shortly into the new year. His tweet had no…
How is artificial intelligence used in journalism?
by Andrew Cochran January 1, 2019 updated October 2019 AI systems in newsrooms are doing tasks not jobs. Examples are…