Copyright, Trademark, and Artificial Intelligence | PATENTLYO
‘Should a work produced by an AI algorithm or process, without the involvement of a natural person contributing expression to…
IBM Trials A.I. That Can Do Soccer Commentary | FORBES
‘…the system tracks players in real-time and can identify passes, crosses and shots on goal. For pre-selected video highlights, it…
Algorithmically turbo-charged journalism | RNZ: Mediawatch
‘Virtual newsreaders, stock reports and election results written up by algorithms, and news organisations dishing up articles based on what you’ve…
AI BRIEFS: December 2019
Art meets artificial intelligence: Austin artists explore new meaning in data | Stephenville Empire-Tribune | DEcember 31, 2019 | by…
To Free Themselves From Lies, Journalists are Using New Tools and Techniques to Check Facts | EDITOR & PUBLISHER
‘Today, reporters, as well as editors and the production staff, now must work faster than ever but getting the story…
AI & Journalism: ‘New powers, new responsibilities’ | Charlie Beckett
Runs 33:22 Remarks by Professor Charlie Beckett at the launch of ‘New Powers, New Responsibilities,‘ a global study of AI…
AI and the future of news | HACKS/HACKERS LDN
Runs 29:41 A panel of news leaders at the launch of the POLIS report on journalism and AI, News Power,…
Researchers train AI to map a person’s facial movements to any target headshot | VENTURE BEAT
‘What if you could manipulate the facial features of a historical figure, a politician, or a CEO realistically and convincingly…
South China Morning Post uses AI to track reader loyalty | INMA
‘Identifying potential loyal readers is beneficial not only for maximising marketing budgets, but also creating personalised reader experiences.’ Reader engagement…
Actually, it’s about Ethics, AI, and Journalism: Reporting on and with Computation and Data | TOW REPORTS
‘…journalists need to continue to develop their technical skills to become better tool makers rather than tool users. It is…
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
‘If we value journalism as a social good, provided by humans for humans, then we have a window of perhaps…
Artificial Intelligence & Journalism | Medienforum Mittweida 2019
Runs 50:54 A conference presentation about the deepfake dilemma by the head of innovation projects at Deutsche Welle, the German…
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…