2024 was a big year for artificial intelligence on a number of fronts. The usage of the expertise has change into extra widespread, and we encounter its functions each day. A Canadian researcher, Geoffrey Hinton, shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics for his contributions to machine studying and synthetic neural networks. Whereas celebrating his win, Hinton cautioned — as he has been for a couple of years now — in opposition to the misuse of AI, and known as for accountable and clear AI improvement.
At The Dialog Canada, we’ve printed many articles on AI and its functions in a number of fields, written by lecturers whose analysis consists of investigating the implications of AI. These embrace its use in mental health therapy, human resources, the criminal justice system, pornography, border management, and a number of other different fields.
A further quick concern for us is the impression of AI on the work that we do. And whereas we’ve printed articles that look at how AI impacts journalism by means of generating and disseminating misinformation together with deepfakes, we’ve additionally checked out how AI might help detect deepfakes and faux information and assist deal with the unfold of misinformation.
Researchers discovered that when “it involves AI and information manufacturing, Canadian news consumers want to know when, how and why AI is part of journalistic work” — at The Dialog Canada, belief in our professional voices to specific, assimilate and interpret data as a human creator is paramount. We are going to proceed to critically examine the shifts that AI is producing in different fields, together with how news organizations are responding to its applications, and use this expert-sourced analysis to tell our personal strategy.
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