Category: Explainer

“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,…

“The first thing to explain is that what ChatGPT is always fundamentally trying to do is to produce a “reasonable continuation” of whatever text it’s got so far, where by “reasonable” we mean “what one might expect someone to write…

“By tracking this contextual information, transformers can handle longer strings of text and capture the meanings of words more accurately. For example, ‘hot dog’ means very different things in the sentences ‘Hot dogs should be given plenty of water’ and…

“Processing language requires working with sequences of words, where order matters. A cat is a cat no matter where it is in an image, but there’s a big difference between ‘this reader is learning about AI’ and ‘AI is learning…

‘J’ is for journalism in an A-Z explainer about AI published online by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) in collaboration with Google. The outcome is 26 short takes on a range of entry-level topics. Items also can be arranged by…

by Tom Kent Feb 24, 2015 Updated October 2019   It’s routine now for news organizations to use artificial intelligence to write news. Robots are regularly transforming data into stories, and stories into multimedia presentations. As more organizations start deploying AI,…

by Andrew Cochran April 16, 2019 updated October 2019 AUGMENTED NEWSROOM – When journalistic work is assisted by intelligent machines as a matter of routine. AUTOMATED JOURNALISM – When news stories are prepared by machines acting by predetermined parameters. Example…

Runs 3:22 Clips from five journalists who presented first-person view of AI systems in journalism to students as part of the Reynolds Journalism Institute’s Innovation Series. The journalists are from: The Wall Street Journal Washington Post WIRED Dogtown Media Graphika…

by Andrew Cochran January 3, 2019 updated October 2019 There’s never been an accepted definition of human intelligence. This makes its artificial form hard to define — as intelligent as what? It comes down to how the results are perceived. A…

by Andrew Cochran January 1, 2019 updated October 2019 AI systems in newsrooms are doing tasks not jobs. Examples are outputting templated stories from structured data or clustering social media posts to flag breaking stories. Three themes have emerged: 1…

by Andrew Cochran December 30, 2018 updated October 2019 It’s confusing when terms mean the same thing — sometimes. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning are often used interchangeably. In one way, they are the same: But not all…

by Andrew Cochran December 2018updated October 2019 Algorithms are sets of instructions — like recipes — for computers to reach an outcome. All forms of AI use algorithms, but not all algorithms are forms of AI. They’re used every day…

Runs 2:59 Report by Bloomberg News.

Runs 3:04 Text on video report featuring Reginald Chua, Chief Operating Officer at Reuters and a thought leader about AI applications in journalism. This piece was produced by the Global Editors Network, from their conference in 2018. 

Runs 21:20 Rob Miles is a Ph.D. student in computer science and a YouTuber about AI. In this video he walks through the processes involved in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANS). A lot of AI activity involves classifying, for example letters,…

Runs 87m TALK by Andrew Ng who, at the time of this lecture, headed a team of more than 1,000 AI scientists at Baidu, a leading AI company in China. His lecture to business students at Stanford provides a clear…

Runs 18:02 TALK by Fei Fei Li, Stanford professor and Co-Director of the Human-Centered AI Institute and the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab. She was principal investigator responsible for ImageNet, the very large data set that was foundational in the…