Category: News
Have Social Media, Powered by AI, Become a Threat to Democracy?
Prof. Andreas Kaplan, Dean ESCP Business School Paris, Sorbonne Alliance Within only a decade, social media, enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, might have gone from being a facilitator of democracy to a severe threat of the same. Around ten years ago, it was said that social media would restore power to citizens.…
Media Brain and Xinhua AI news anchors
As a radio journalist for years, I am interested in the development of media technology and the impact on media landscape. I closely followed the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in Chinese media industry. In December 2017, China’s Xinhua News Agency launched its AI Media Brain platform. In March 2018, the agency premiered the first…
Computational Narrative Phantasmal Media & Virtual Identity
“My career is a quest to use the computer as a medium to spur the imagination and galvanize people to critically reflect upon society.” Prof. D. Fox Harrell, MIT CSAIL 0. Computational Narrative Professor Fox Harrell on computational narratives: “Computational narratives take many forms including virtual and augmented reality systems, immersive experiences, videogames, electronic literature,…
Synthetic ads, GANs, AI-generated media
Preparing for an era of deepfakes and AI-generated ads? A framework has become available for understanding responses to manipulated advertising in the context of AI-generated media. Generations of manipulation in advertising is also analysed as the timeline of analogue, digital and synthetic media. According to the authors, “technological innovations have given the advertising industry the…
