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Microsoft News replacing journalists with algorithms
Microsoft News is upping its use of algorithms for certain editorial functions, handing out lay-off notices to contract journalists in…
Oxford Internet Institute + Google explain AI
‘J’ is for journalism in an A-Z explainer about AI published online by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) in collaboration…
Swedish Aftonbladet uses automation to outpace competitors with its covid-19 news coverage | JOURNALISM.CO.UK
An AI system scanning 20 sources a second helps a Swedish publisher be first with local alerts on the novel…
Robot attack: Why journalism professor Nicholas Diakopoulos doesn’t fear the automation of newsrooms | DIGIDAY
‘We should not be so afraid of jobs going away as much as jobs changing, new roles and new tasks…
Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions 2020 | REUTERS INSTITUTE
Reaching and monetizing readers are the most important uses of AI systems in news, says a global survey of journalistic…
7 things to consider before adopting AI in your news organisation: A training module for newsrooms | POLIS
‘…to benefit from the potential offered by AI technologies, news organizations will have to change. Again. They need to change…
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…
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…
Hide-and-seek finds clues to human-like AI
Researchers at OpenAI in California found their algorithms started displaying complex behaviours after 25 million games. They stopped at 500…
The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines | Jobin et al
Seventy-four sets of ethical guidelines have been developed for AI since 2016. It makes a total of 84 ethics documents…
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…
Microsoft teams up with OpenAI in new $1B artificial intelligence partnership | SILICON ANGLE
With its fortune made from creating instructions for desktop computers, Microsoft is betting $1 billion on machines figuring things out…
Making Artificial Intelligence Work for Investigative Journalism | Stray
‘AI has barely touched investigative journalism, let alone transformed it.’ Benefits of AI in investigative journalism should be weighed against…
Artificial sincerity, too?
The AI anchors of Xinhua TV by Andrew Cochran May 4, 2019 last updated October, 2019 The idea of an…
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…
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…