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“The first thing to explain is that what ChatGPT is always fundamentally trying to do is to produce a “reasonable continuation” of whatever text it’s got so far, where by “reasonable” we mean “what one might expect someone to write…

“By tracking this contextual information, transformers can handle longer strings of text and capture the meanings of words more accurately. For example, ‘hot dog’ means very different things in the sentences ‘Hot dogs should be given plenty of water’ and…

“Processing language requires working with sequences of words, where order matters. A cat is a cat no matter where it is in an image, but there’s a big difference between ‘this reader is learning about AI’ and ‘AI is learning…

“The debates over automation in journalism are not straightforward. Many welcome the capability to make non-journalistic tasks more efficient, but at the same time worry that cheaply produced synthetic media and semi-automated content could further commoditise news and undermine trust.”…

“. . . we confirmed our suspicion about the AI gap between large and small organizations. In the cohort we surveyed, AI technologies were not in wide use. But the reasons largely came down to a lack of any cushion…

German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) has ten guidelines for ethically using AI-driven content in their journalism. They have an AI + Automation group that led the development of the guidelines. They organize their considerations under ten headings: . ….

Reaching and monetizing readers are the most important uses of AI systems in news, says a global survey of journalistic leaders. The REUTERS INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF JOURNALISM annual survey reports responses on several issues facing news organizations in…

‘…to benefit from the potential offered by AI technologies, news organizations will have to change. Again. They need to change their workflows, systems, and recruitment.’ This practical guide to implementing AI in newsrooms is by POLIS, the LSE journalism think-tank,…

‘The upcoming shift may well spell the end of PSM as we know it. But it could also be the start of a new era in which PSM organizations are more than ever called upon to act as curators of…

The authors provide a thorough account of the progression ‘from artisan journalism to artificial journalism.‘ They compare writing by algorithms and humans, and project several implications of artificial journalism to come, including: Changes from efforts to control the story to…

Seventy-four sets of ethical guidelines have been developed for AI since 2016. It makes a total of 84 ethics documents currently in circulation. Sources split fairly evenly between government and private industry, each contributing about 22% of the total. The…

The Editorial Board of NATURE says ‘governments have been slow to to prioritize the ethics of AI.’ The US and China have been overly focused on the ‘the top prize,’ they say, a portion of the US$15 trillion yield expected…

This article from JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATIONS QUARTERLY is like reading the opening remarks from a well produced panel. Six scholars present ideas about AI in journalism. Author and NYU professor Meredith Broussard warns against technochauvinism: ‘let us not perpetuate…

‘the word intelligence does not adequately explain what is occurring, and ascribing anthropomorphic qualities to AI is out of order… What AI can do is to perform well-specified tasks to help discover associations between data and actions, providing solutions for quandaries people…

‘…ethics are much more easily manipulated to support a given company or government’s agenda, with limited recourse for anyone who disagrees.’  Alison Berthet, writing in OpenGlobalRights, argues that existing human rights provisions are more robust than ethics and come already…

Automated systems present trade-offs in craft. In the academic journal DIGITAL JOURNALISM, authors Rhianne Jones and Bronwyn Jones examine two R&D systems at BBC. Among several observations, they find readying material for algorithmic retrieval takes more time than writing for…

‘AI has barely touched investigative journalism, let alone transformed it.’ Benefits of AI in investigative journalism should be weighed against its limitations, says Jonathan Stray in the academic journal DIGITAL JOURNALISM. Stray explores how AI systems have have been used…

Runs 1:31:50 Two of the principal architects of deep learning give their first-person account of its evolution and future. Geoffrey Hinton, Google Brain and Vector Institute – The Deep Learning Revolution (begins at 9:59) Yann LeCun, Facebook AI Research, NYU…

Runs 29:34 Keynote talk by Google news founder Krishna Bharat at the 2019 Global Editors Summit. Bharat says journalism is the ‘immune system of democracy.’ AI tools will benefit the practice of journalism — and by extension, democracy — but…

Runs 32:19 Talk by John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg, at the 2019 Global Editors Summit in Athens. He sees AI systems for journalism making a difference in four areas: He describes how fake news dates back centuries. ATHENS | June,…

Runs 41:07 A panel discussion at the GEN SUMMIT 2019 about automated systems used in three newsrooms. Moderated by Trint founder Jeff Kofman. PANELISTS Monique White – Head of AI and Information Extraction, Bloomberg News Robin Govik – Chief Digital Officer, Mittmedia Peter Buhr – Technical…

THE GOVERNMENT OF FINLAND wants AI to be ‘human-centric’ and ‘trust-generating.’ The aspiration comes in a sweeping government paper on national readiness, saying AI is more than a technology. AI understanding should reach all aspects of Finnish society. It should…

‘One key difference between the analogue bureaucracy of the traditional civil service and the digitised bureaucracy of artificial intelligence is that it is very much easier to hold a human organisation to account and to retrace the process by which…

Runs 15:16 A panel session at the Machines and Media 2019 conference in New York. Moderated by Chris Collins, Senior Executive Editor, Breaking News, Bloomberg. Panelists Nick Diakopoulos – Assistant Professor, Northwestern University; and Author, Automating the News: How Algorithms…

‘The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) concerns the future of the whole society, all humankind, and the environment.’ A combination of universities, institutes, and companies have launched 15 principles to guide the evolution of artificial intelligence in China. Known as…

‘A global reference point for trustworthy AI’ is how the OECD headlines this report from their Council on Artificial Intelligence. They note optimism about economic growth from AI and at the same time notice ‘anxieties and ethical concerns,’ which they…

How do journalists perceive artificial intelligence? Six UK researchers wanted to find out to help develop an AI tool that is ‘sympathetic to the way journalists work.’ Their study sample yielded three themes: Perception – There’s generally high awareness that…

Runs 31:07 Presentation by Chris Wiggins, Chief Data Scientist at the New York Times, at the REV 2 event in New York City. The organizers include a session summary and transcript. NEW YORK | May, 2019

Runs: 90m Discussion starts around 9:38, following introductions A wide-ranging conversation: ethics in society, hacking humans, free will, and more. Moderated by Nicholas Thompson, WIRED’s Editor-in-Chief The session was jointly sponsored by Stanford University’s Humanities Center, McCoy Family Center for…

‘Emotions are going to become more important for news in the networked era, that is inevitable, the choice for journalists (and the public) is how they respond.’ IN A SPEECH AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, Charlie Beckett says emotion can contribute to…