Tag: Reference materials
Jacob Berkowitz: Hey Siri, write me a book: Turing’s Imitation Game is AI’s highest form of flattery – and it’s writing its own story | THE GLOBE AND MAIL
‘As young parents, we’re caught off-guard when suddenly we’re arguing with an articulate, obdurate child. We desperately want our children,…
Automation, bots and algorithms in newsmaking. Impact and quality of artificial journalism | Miguel Túñez-López et al
The authors provide a thorough account of the progression ‘from artisan journalism to artificial journalism.‘ They compare writing by algorithms…
Fred Beneson: AI Is Coming for Your Favorite Menial Tasks | THE ATLANTIC
Fred Beneson wonders what happens when human jobs are only about tough decisions. AI systems are expected to take on…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher: The Metamorphosis | THE ATLANTIC
‘the word intelligence does not adequately explain what is occurring, and ascribing anthropomorphic qualities to AI is out of order… What AI…
Alison Berthet: Why do emerging AI guidelines emphasize ‘ethics’ over human rights? | OpenGlobalRights
‘…ethics are much more easily manipulated to support a given company or government’s agenda, with limited recourse for anyone who…
Atomising the news: The (In)Flexibility of Structured Journalism | Jones & Jones
Automated systems present trade-offs in craft. In the academic journal DIGITAL JOURNALISM, authors Rhianne Jones and Bronwyn Jones examine two…
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…
Turing Lecture: Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun | ACM 2019
Runs 1:31:50 Two of the principal architects of deep learning give their first-person account of its evolution and future. Geoffrey…
Krishna Bharat: Impact of AI on journalism and democracy | GEN SUMMIT 2019
Runs 29:34 Keynote talk by Google news founder Krishna Bharat at the 2019 Global Editors Summit. Bharat says journalism is…
Keynote session with John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg | GEN SUMMIT 2019
Runs 32:19 Talk by John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg, at the 2019 Global Editors Summit in Athens. He sees AI…
Automation in the Newsroom: Productivity, Production and Personalisation | GEN SUMMIT 2019
Runs 41:07 A panel discussion at the GEN SUMMIT 2019 about automated systems used in three newsrooms. Moderated by Trint…
Leading the way into the age of artificial intelligence | FINLAND 2019
THE GOVERNMENT OF FINLAND wants AI to be ‘human-centric’ and ‘trust-generating.’ The aspiration comes in a sweeping government paper on…
Editorial Board: The Guardian view on digital injustice – when computers make things worse | THE GUARDIAN
‘One key difference between the analogue bureaucracy of the traditional civil service and the digitised bureaucracy of artificial intelligence is…
Automation of News & Journalism | MACHINES + MEDIA 2019
Runs 15:16 A panel session at the Machines and Media 2019 conference in New York. Moderated by Chris Collins, Senior…
Beijing AI Principles | BEIJING ACADEMY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 2019
A combination of universities, institutes, and companies have launched 15 principles to guide the evolution of artificial intelligence in China….
Recommendation of the Council on Artificial Intelligence | OECD 2019
‘A global reference point for trustworthy AI’ is how the OECD headlines this report from their Council on Artificial Intelligence….
How to Blend Journalistic Expertise with Artificial Intelligence for Research and Verifying News Stories | Missaoui et al
How do journalists perceive artificial intelligence? Six UK researchers wanted to find out to help develop an AI tool that…
Data Science at The New York Times | REV 2
Runs 31:07 Presentation by Chris Wiggins, Chief Data Scientist at the New York Times, at the REV 2 event in…
Fei-Fei Li & Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation – The Coming AI Upheaval | Stanford 2019
Runs: 90m Discussion starts around 9:38, following introductions A wide-ranging conversation: ethics in society, hacking humans, free will, and more….
Charlie Beckett: Emotion as an organising principle for networked journalism | LSE BLOGS
‘Emotions are going to become more important for news in the networked era, that is inevitable, the choice for journalists…
AI, Facts and the Future of Journalism | FOURTH ESTATE
Runs 34:07 A podcast discussion about using AI tools in newsrooms. Hosted by Peter Fray, co-director of the Centre for…
AI isn’t taking journalists’ jobs. It is making them smarter and more efficient | REYNOLDS JOURNALISM INSTITUTE
Runs 3:22 Clips from five journalists who presented first-person view of AI systems in journalism to students as part of…
Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI | EUROPEAN COMMISSION 2018
The EUROPEAN COMMISSION presents seven guidelines for trustworthy artificial intelligence. The Commission says they want to create ‘an environment of…
Newsroom technology and the future of journalism | IJF 2019
Runs 47:50 A talk by Chris Collins, senior executive editor, breaking news, for Bloomberg, about uses and influences of AI…