Machine Learning & AI
Aldhous. Peter. We trained a computer to search for hidden spy planes: this is what it found. Buzzfeed. 2017 with code
Bhatia, Aatish. Watch an AI learn to write by reading nothing but Jane Austen, NY Times, 2023
Bradshaw, Paul. Ten ways AI can be used for investigations (slides). 2019
Bradshaw, Paul. Teaching journalism students chatgpt and generative AI. 2023 & video talk
Cheung, Paul. Journalism’s superfood: AI? Knight Foundation. 2019
Clarke, Sean et al. How AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Bard work: visual explainer. Guardian, 2023
DataFlair. Detecting fake news with python
Deepnews. Article scorer for journalistic quality
Fussell, Sidney. AI Shows ExxonMobil Downplayed Its Role in Climate Change. 2021
Gajtkowski, Adam. Predicting FT trending topics. 2021
Google News Initiative. Introduction to machine learning
ICIJ. Datashare (tool for sorting large amounts of documents)
Marconi, Francesco. Newsmakers: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism. Columbia University Press, 2020. Library resource
Merrill, Jeremy B. Searching Bill de Blasio’s emails with the universal sentence encoder. Quartz
Murgia, Madhumita. Generative AI exists because of the transformer. This is how it works. 2023.
Soma, Jonathan. Practical data science for journalists
Thurman, Neil et al. (eds.). Algorithms, Automation & News. Routledge, 2021. Library resource See also Digital Journalism, vol 7/8, 2019. Library resource
Quartz. Helicopters circling (code)
Thompson, Erica. Escape from model land. How mathematical models can lead us astray and what to do about it. Basic Books. 2022
Wu, Floris. How machine learning can (and can’t) help journalists. March 2019
Wu, Floris. The future of machine learning in journalism. Storybench. 2019