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It has been a year since we published the results of our global survey on what news organisations are doing with and thinking about AI technologies. Augmentation: Most use cases were designed to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the work of human journalists, not to replace them. AI-powered technologies were used to connect content better to the public, rather than to replicate the editorial process. Knowledge gap: There was a shortage of people skilled in AI technologies and, just as important, a lack of knowledge across news organisations about the potential and pitfalls of those technologies. Strategy: In a fast-moving, highly-pressurised industry, there was a lack of strategic thinking about a set of technologies that can have a systemic impact on all aspects of journalism. I don't think the report missed much or got things wrong, but since then we've had a year of intense and wide-ranging research and activities with journalists using AI around the world.

These are tricky topics to navigate but ones which many journalists are increasingly grappling with as tech stories become more mainstream. There have been some teething issues though. The classic example in 2015 was when NPR mapped the most common job in every US state using data derived from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Truck drivers dominated the map. The issue is in the nuance of what'truck driver' means; the category includes anything from delivery drivers to those driving 16-wheel lorries.

From purchasing a paper to opening a news application on your tablet, from leasing a DVD to streaming your #1 TV show on a smart TV, from purchasing a cookbook to getting modified recipe recommendations on your cell phone, it's certain that the digital transformation of the media business has already started. In the digital world, innovation is changing rapidly while buyers are the ones making and disrupting the guidelines of the game. In this specific situation, each business gets digital and hence requires a digital focus in all business processes and capacities. In the media business, the digital transformation seems, by all accounts, to be going mainstream. The fast progressions in technology combined with the unlimited opportunities brought by digital video empower new players to enter the market and construct disruptive business models that destabilize traditional media organizations and draw in crowds in a matter of seconds.

AI coaches are computer software solutions that leverage deep learning algorithms and cognitive speech analytics to analyze sales agents' …

"AB-Joins" are like SQL Joins but for two time series data sets. In this new post, we use STUMPY to analyze and compare Queen/Bowie's song "Under Pressure" with Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" and discover remarkable similarities in the bass line:

Deep learning refers to a myriad of nuances in our reaction to different situations that are processed and interpreted by machines.

A diverse team of engineers, artists, and algorithms, collaborated to create songs for SophiaPop, via various neural networks, robotics technologies, and artistic tools, and animated the results on Sophia the Robot, a robotic celebrity and animated character. Sophia is a platform for arts, research, and other uses. To advance the art and technology of Sophia, we combine various AI with a fictional narrative of her burgeoning career as a popstar. Her actual AI-generated pop lyrics, music, and paintings, and animated conversations wherein she interacts with humans real-time in narratives that discuss her experiences. To compose the music, SophiaPop team built corpora from human and AI-generated Sophia character personality content, along with pop music song forms, to train and provide seeds for a number of AI algorithms including expert models, and custom-trained transformer neural networks, which then generated original pop-song lyrics and melodies. Our musicians including Frankie Storm, Adam Pickrell, and Tiger Darrow, then performed interpretations of the AI-generated musical content, including singing and instrumentation. The human-performed singing data then was processed by a neural-network-based Sophia voice, which was custom-trained from human performances by Cereproc. This AI then generated the unique Sophia voice singing of the songs. Then we animated Sophia to sing the songs in music videos, using a variety of animation generators and human-generated animations. Being algorithms and humans, working together, SophiaPop represents a human-AI collaboration, aspiring toward human AI symbiosis. We believe that such a creative convergence of multiple disciplines with humans and AI working together, can make AI relevant to human culture in new and exciting ways, and lead to a hopeful vision for the future of human-AI relations.

Companies apply Artificial Intelligence and relevant applications to change their business like never before, completely restarting how organizations execute, contend, and prosper. Implemented responsibly, people use AI to expand away how humans stay and activities. AI is now transitioning to the mainstream. The technology used earlier limited to robots and sci-fi movies will now assist people in improving their bios. Several applications are already created in image recognition, speech recognition, statistical analysis, and far more.

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/last-week-in-ai-91 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)