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A Primer on Paper: The New Media Machines
"Oh god, I’m so tired, what’s going on? Did I miss anything? Am I already screwed?"
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MoP #2 - Some Regulation, as a Treat
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This Post is Not About AI Porn
"The point I will attempt to demonstrate here: The rubric for building engaged audiences around emerging media tech is nearly universal."
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The Automation of Sports Writing
"Connecting those specific error patterns to long-term reader behaviors is… harder."
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Discussing AI at a Journalism Tech Conference
I recently attended SRCCON, a lovely conference held in Minneapolis that focuses on the tooling needed to help modern news organizations innovate and also, sadly, stay alive. AI came up a lot. The notes and transcripts from the sessions are online if you’re interested in reading (or auto-summarizing) them.
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MoP #1 - The New World
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Book Report: Fear of a Black Universe by Stephon Alexander
"Many of us working on anything even tangentially-related to ethical AI are already deviants."
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Taking AI to School
"The problem is that all these use cases are Nice-to-Haves. A Nice-to-Have is a bot that coaches the debate team or a text-to-worksheet app."
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Hello World... what is a machine learning model anyway?
Here at Machines on Paper, we’ll be following the integration of AI into our professional lives with curiosity, humor and a smattering of computer science.
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Paper Brief: Meet LocalLens
"Enter your locality, get back AI articles based on the publicly-posted minutes of official meetings."
Welcome to MoP!
Here at Machines on Paper, we'll analyze the latest developments in AI and offer media commentary with an expert's eye.