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…
OpenAI has released the largest version yet of its fake-news-spewing AI | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
‘…after careful monitoring, OpenAI had not yet found any attempts of malicious use but had seen multiple beneficial applications, including…
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…
Predictive AI helps Foxtel drive double-digit growth: Insights for publishers | WNIP
Predicting when a cricket wicket would drop five minutes before it happened helped Foxtel reinvent live sports coverage in Australia….
Meet the Researchers Working to Make Sure Artificial Intelligence Is a Force for Good | TIME
TIME PROFILES the AI Now Institute at NYU. The institute is dedicated to ‘ethically sound’ practices in AI development. The…
AI Making Waves In News And Journalism | FORBES
‘news organizations are increasingly leveraging AI to change the way news is generated, produced, published, and shared’ Ron Schmelzer, a…
Editorial: International AI ethics panel must be independent | NATURE
The Editorial Board of NATURE says ‘governments have been slow to to prioritize the ethics of AI.’ The US and…
Már Másson Maack: I’m scared shitless of my new robot colleague | TNW
‘Am I meant to compete with a bot now? Satoshi doesn’t need to sleep, feel inspired, or even have a…
‘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. That compares to about…
Explainable AI and the Companies Leading the Way | VENTURE RADAR
‘…as models become more specialised and complex, they turn out to be increasingly opaque and harder to interpret.’ Verification can…
Baidu announces simultaneous translation service for business users | SiliconANGLE
‘Users simply download the Baidu translation app, scan a QR code for the specific conference they’re attending, and the translations…
AI is learning from humans. Many humans. | NEW YORK TIMES
‘What I saw didn’t look very much like the future — or at least the automated one you might imagine….
Montag is a New Magazine Written Entirely by AI | BEEBOM
‘The contents for the articles are scraped from the internet using shell scripts and Python scripts. The scraped text then…
Olaf Groth, Mark Nitzberg, Stuart Russell: AI Algorithms Need FDA-style Drug Trials | WIRED
‘A software engineer can create an army of AI-powered bots, each pretending to be a different person, promoting content on…
Gary Marcus: Deepmind’s losses and the future of artificial intelligence | WIRED
‘Deep reinforcement learning may not be the royal road to artificial general intelligence, but DeepMind itself is a formidable operation,…
Future of Fast Food: How Valyant AI Plans to Revolutionize the Drive-Thru | OBSERVER
Instead of voice AI that’s trained to handle any question, Valyant AI is focused on expertise in one domain at…
Nvidia just made it easier to build smarter chatbots and slicker fake news | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
‘…it’s likely to be a long while before machines can really converse with us. Language is deceptively difficult for machines…
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….
What does an AI ethicist do? | WEF
THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM DESCRIBES the emerging role of full-time ethicist at companies working with AI. They focus on how…
World Economic Forum Wants to Help Companies Avoid the Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence: Eye on A.I. | FORBES
An ethics toolkit for using AI in corporations is in the works by the World Economic Forum. Forbes reports the…
JPMorgan Chase picks AI over humans to write ads | SF GATE
‘…the largest U.S. bank says Persado’s “artificial intelligence message machine” wrote ads that generated two to five times the response…
Chinese newspaper has robot writer of science news | XINHUA
‘According to investors, more international journals, as well as conference and patent information, will be covered by the automated systems…
How do we build trust between humans and AI? | WEF
True trust is two way, says the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, suggesting a social contract with AI is required in order…
AI BRIEFS: August 2019
AI and machine learning set to change science journalism landscape INDIA SCIENCE WIRE | August 30, 2019 | by Umashankar…
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…
Social Media’s Plan to Fight Online Trolls Gets a Reality Check: Eye on A.I. | FORBES
Using AI for content moderation still faces significant hurdles, says a UK consultancy in a report by FORBES. Cambridge Consultants…
TV anchor Vikram Chandra bets on AI-powered short videos to fix India’s broken news scene | QUARTZ
AI is helping a news app compete in the crowded India marketplace, according to this QUARTZ piece. Editor Ji offers…