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Francesco Marconi
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Jan 5

AI-Written Article Makes a Case for Your Attention: Will You Read It?

As we stand at the cusp of a new era of artificial intelligence, we are faced with a curious paradox: humans reading articles written by machines. — Imagine, if you will, a writer sitting at their desk, pen in hand, composing a masterpiece. The words flow from their mind and onto the page, each one a unique and beautiful snowflake, a testament to their individuality and creativity. …

Automated Journalism

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AI-Written Article Makes a Case for Your Attention: Will You Read It?
AI-Written Article Makes a Case for Your Attention: Will You Read It?
Automated Journalism

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Mar 29, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Company Applied XL Raises $3.5 million led by Hearst Ventures to Expand Event Detection and Real-Time Information Platform

New York, N.Y. (March, 2022) — Applied XL, a real-time information company tracking disruptions to the health of people, places, and the planet, today announced it had raised $3.5 million in seed funding led by Hearst Ventures with the participation of the Boston Globe Media Partners and STAT, (which are…

Fundraising

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Artificial Intelligence Company Applied XL Raises $3.5 million Led by Hearst Ventures
Artificial Intelligence Company Applied XL Raises $3.5 million Led by Hearst Ventures
Fundraising

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Jan 19, 2022

Applied XL partners with STAT to launch a new clinical trials monitoring platform powered by artificial intelligence

STAT Trials Pulse provides biotech and pharma professionals with the earliest signals about clinical development through machine learning and editorial algorithms. NEW YORK, NY — Today, STAT, the nation’s must-read health, science, and medicine publication, and AI company Applied XL, announced the launch of STAT Trials Pulse, an artificial intelligence…

Artificial Intelligence

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Applied XL partners with STAT to launch a new clinical trials monitoring platform powered by…
Applied XL partners with STAT to launch a new clinical trials monitoring platform powered by…
Artificial Intelligence

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Sep 22, 2021

How to interview algorithms without code?

50 questions to ask companies responsible for developing, implementing and monitoring artificial intelligence systems. This interview guide offers a framework for understanding how to audit artificial intelligence tools implemented across the public and private sector. As these systems proliferate all parts of life, it is important to understand how to question specific algorithms, just as we question human decisions.

Algorithmic Transparency

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How to interview algorithms without code?
How to interview algorithms without code?
Algorithmic Transparency

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Jul 2, 2021

10 Media Innovations that Were First Introduced in Science Fiction

Any technology we imagine will become reality — even if decades later. In 1889, Jules Vernes foresaw live news: “Earth Chronicle is every morning spoken to subscribers, who, from interesting conversations with reporters, statesmen and scientists, learn the news of the day.” In 1980, CNN launched the first TV channel providing 24-hour news coverage. 2. Hugo Gernsback described news personalization back in…

Science Fiction

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10 Media Innovations that Were First Introduced in Science Fiction
10 Media Innovations that Were First Introduced in Science Fiction
Science Fiction

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Apr 22, 2021

Why We are Building an Information Company Powered by Editorial Algorithms

Applied XL raises $1.5M to develop high precision AI systems that distill insights from big data, giving professionals and investors access to reliable life sciences information. — Humans are producing more information right now than we did at any point in history. We’re up to our eyeballs in data — data from the web, from sensors, from mobile devices and satellites, all growing exponentially. The amount of data created over the next three years will be more…

Artificial Intelligence

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Why We are Building an Information Company Powered by Editorial Algorithms
Why We are Building an Information Company Powered by Editorial Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence

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Feb 24, 2021

10-Point Memo: Why Editorial Algorithms Are the Future of Modern Journalism

From a machine learning perspective, journalism is *simply* event detection applied to continuously updating data. Let’s look at an hypothetical example where there’s a lot of reliable data: Sports. …

Machine Learning

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10-Point Memo: Why Editorial Algorithms Are the Future of Modern Journalism
10-Point Memo: Why Editorial Algorithms Are the Future of Modern Journalism
Machine Learning

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Jan 8, 2021

We Just Entered the Most Critical Decade For the News & Information Industry

This is why journalism must evolve into becoming an “Information Science” 1. The pandemic forced many news organizations to innovate how they use technology, rethink how they manage remote staff and make sense of huge amounts of complex information. Covid also demonstrated the importance of tracking data in real-time and making it a central reference for all reporting! 2. The…

Journalism

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We Just Entered the Most Critical Decade For the News & Information Industry
We Just Entered the Most Critical Decade For the News & Information Industry
Journalism

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Nov 18, 2020

The Future of Information in 10 Steps and You won’t Believe What Happens Next!

1.A key premise of computational journalism is that news events can be explained with the same rigor used by scientists to study the natural world. Journalism is going through a process of “mathematization” and eventually evolve into *Information Science* How the Wall Street Journal is using Deep Learning to Inform Content Strategy Data scientists are working alongside journalists to explore how well-established machine learning methods can help to…medium.com

Journalism

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The Future of Information in 10 Steps and You won’t Believe What Happens Next!
The Future of Information in 10 Steps and You won’t Believe What Happens Next!
Journalism

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Jul 23, 2020

A New Era of Journalism: How Covid-19 is Transforming the News

The crisis has shown a secondary, positive side effect: accelerating the speed of journalistic innovation. — The growing demand for information during the pandemic has not been met with an adequate increase in journalistic resources. In fact, the opposite has been true. According to the Poynter Institute, in the US alone over 33,000 journalists have been laid off, furloughed, or given pay cuts as a direct…

Journalism

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A New Era of Journalism: How Covid-19 is Transforming the News
A New Era of Journalism: How Covid-19 is Transforming the News
Journalism

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