Tag: News items
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…
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 differential’ to humans so that we may successfully co-exist with new forms of…
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…
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…
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…
The Economist’s essay contest featured an AI submission. Here’s what the judges thought. | VOX
‘…the AI did not emerge victorious — but even this mediocre performance is a stunning change from what AI was…
AI BRIEFS: October 2019
Google chief: I’d disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home | BBC NEWS | October 15, 2019 | by…
Journalists urged to embrace Artificial Intelligence | THE NEW TIMES
‘Without the help of technology, it will be hard for the media because the world is getting more precarious and…
Google releases videos to help researchers create better ‘deepfake’ detection tools | SILICON ANGLE
‘Google’s videos should be useful, since many of them appear to be incredibly realistic, especially to users who have no…
AI: time to crack on | IN PUBLISHING
‘…the danger is that once again, journalism will be left chasing after the change instead of meeting the challenge.’ AI…
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…
Quartz will use crowds and machines for ‘open investigations’
‘This is an open investigation, and we need your help monitoring the campaigns, companies, governments, and other actors involved’ Kevin…
Thailand’s first AI journalist named ‘Suthichai AI’ unveiled | THAI PBS
‘Suthichai AI said that AI will revolutionize information by presenting news and analyzing it faster, with accuracy and in a…
AI BRIEFS: September 2019
Artificial intelligence and face scanning technology is being used in UK job interviews for the first time to identify best…
AI Takes Center Court at U.S. Open | WALL STREET JOURNAL
‘Watson has been trained to recognize acoustic inputs—the cheers of a crowd, the sound of sneakers on a court, the…
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…
‘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…
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….
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…
AI BRIEFS: August 2019
AI and machine learning set to change science journalism landscape INDIA SCIENCE WIRE | August 30, 2019 | by Umashankar…
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…