What should newsrooms do about deepfakes? These three things, for starters | NEIMAN LAB
‘Whether or not opinion columnists’ direst predictions come to fruition, it seems almost inevitable that newsrooms operating in a world…
The Next Newsroom | EBU 2019
‘The upcoming shift may well spell the end of PSM as we know it. But it could also be the…
Journalism with AI: ‘New powers, new responsibilities’ | POLIS 2019
NEWSROOMS need to pay attention to AI because it could have ‘a wide-ranging and profound influence on how journalism is…
How artificial intelligence is redefining the role of manager | WEF
‘Surprisingly, last year, we discovered that the majority of workers would trust orders from a robot. This year, almost two-thirds…
Researchers identify seven types of fake news, aiding better detection | PHYS ORG
‘False news tends to be less grammatical and less factual, with greater reliance on emotionally charged claims, misleading headlines and…
The USPTO wants to know if artificial intelligence can own the content it creates | THE VERGE
‘It outlines thirteen specific questions, ranging from what happens if an AI creates a copyright-infringing work to if it’s legal…
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…
AI Coverage Best Practices, According to AI Researchers | SKYNET TODAY
‘…we are both invested and sensitive to how AI is portrayed in the media. In this article, we suggest a…
AI-powered journalism: A time-saver or an accident waiting to happen? | JOURNALISM.CO.UK
‘automated journalism is only as reliable as the information that has been plugged into it to during its development and…
Why it’s about time we talk seriously about AI and journalism | HACKS/HACKERS LONDON
‘One of the biggest issues around AI for journalism is that the news industry is much smaller with fewer resources…
Artificial Intelligence Artwork Wins Graduate Art Prize For Camberwell Graduate | ART & COLLECTIONS
‘The Graduate Art Prize…is open to all final year students on BA and MA degree courses at British art colleges…
AI BRIEFS: November 2019
AI Stats News: Chatbots Increase Sales By 67% But 87% Of Consumers Prefer Humans | FORBES | November 25, 2019…
Evolution from keyword searches to AI-enabled conversations | WEB SUMMIT 2019
Runs 17:15 Talk by Alexa Head Scientist Rohit Prasad about next steps in voice interface using Amazon’s Alexa. He describes…
David Weinberger: Perspective on Knowledge – Journalism’s new landscape | KM WORLD
‘news media organizations seem unlikely to survive if they continue to operate under assumptions that they have inherited from our…
AI becomes grandmaster in ‘fiendishly complex’ StarCraft II | THE GUARDIAN
‘Top players need adaptable short and long-term strategies to grow and defend their bases while laying waste to the opposition….
The hidden costs of AI | AXIOS
‘Research often guns for incremental advances, juicing an extra percentage point of accuracy out of a previously proposed model.’ Using…
Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing | NEW YORK TIMES
‘It relies on the mind-bending ways some objects act at the subatomic level or when exposed to extreme cold, like…
AP to grow Major League Soccer coverage with automated stories | AP
‘The automation technology enables the previews to be produced directly from data without the intervention of editors. AP reporters add…
Using the power of machines to complete impossible reporting tasks | ICIJ
‘As datasets become bigger and more complex, machine learning models that help reporters sort and analyze data are becoming not…
Booksby.ai is a bookshop entirely created by artificial intelligence | NEW ATLAS
‘Every aspect of the site is generated by machine learning algorithms, from the entire books and accompanying cover artwork, to…
In AI we trust — too much | AXIOS
‘AI carries an aura of legitimacy and accuracy, burnished by overeager marketing departments and underinformed users. But AI is just…
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…
Stuart Russell on why now is the time to start thinking about superintelligent AI – Science Weekly podcast | THE GUARDIAN
Stuart Russell suggests making intelligent machines ‘permanently deferential’ to humans so we may successfully co-exist with new forms of AI…
Do we trust artificial intelligence agents to mediate conflict? Not entirely | USC
‘Researchers from USC and the University of Denver created a simulation in which a three-person team was supported by a…
This Technique Can Make It Easier for AI to Understand Videos | WIRED
‘…deep learning is less adept at interpreting video. Analyzing a video frame won’t reveal what’s happening unless that frame is…
The State of Technology in Global Newsrooms | ICFJ 2019
Introducing AI is second only to ‘shifting revenue models’ as a major challenge facing worldwide newsrooms, says a global study…
If a Robotic Hand Solves a Rubik’s Cube, Does It Prove Something? | NEW YORK TIMES
‘…the hand learned to solve the puzzle through extreme trial and error. It spent the equivalent of 10,000 years spinning…
The Next Word | THE NEW YORKER
‘…it’s making billions of lightning-fast probability calculations about word patterns’ The NEW YORKER takes a detailed look at predictive text…
How the Wall Street Journal is using deep learning to inform content strategy | MEDIUM
‘While traditional analytics dashboards give newsrooms insights about recent performance, this project strengthens the “long-term memory of the newsroom”…. Editors…
The biggest threat of deepfakes isn’t the deepfakes themselves | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
‘The mere idea of AI-synthesized media is already making people stop believing that real things are real.’ Undermining trust in…