Artificial Intelligence a tool for those creating and combating fake news

Indian-American brothers look to harness artificial intelligence for greater good Google launching artificial intelligence research center in China DUBAI: With the everchanging technological landscape the world is witnessing, Artificial Intelligence's impact on the world of journalism has proved to be a double-edged sword, the Associated Press' Director of News Partnerships Lisa Gibbs explained at Dubai's Arab Media Forum on Tuesday. "The biggest issue we face today is the war on fake news. AI will be a powerful tool for those seeking to create it and those seeking to combat it," she said, adding that, "technology is getting better at creating fake images and thus we need to build tools to spot these fake images, the same goes for text and video." The rise of fake news across social media platforms pushed the Associated Press to launch a tool called "AP Verify" which allows AI to assess and verify news extracted from social media, Gibbs explained. With this, AI is being introduced to more speedily form news stories based on verified minimal information supplied – thus churning out 3,700 stories a day in comparison to the 300 done solely using human journalists.