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The age of big data |
This is the idea that we are living in an age of exponential growth in the complexity of social systems. |
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Data Mind |
This refers to the idea that everything we do online is collected and analyzed into a large storage of data, which can be used to form algorithms for targeted advertising. |
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Effects of Big Data |
Advertising is based on a person's digital identity; social networks such as facebook can now customize your newsfeed based on your internet history (such as your likes). |
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Advantages of Big Data |
You can find what you like without exerting any effort. It also makes advertising easy because ads are based on the online behaviour in social networks. |
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Disadvantages of Big Data |
It is unethical and it creates a "bubble". |
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What was the Dean's example of Data Mining? |
In 2012, when Cuba suffered its first outbreak of cholera in 130 years, the government and medical experts there were shocked. But software created by Kira Radinsky had predicted it months earlier… it “read” 150 years of new reports and huge amounts of data from sources such as Wikipedia, NYT and spotted a pattern in poor countries. Floods that occurred about a year after a drought in the same area often led to cholera outbreak in poor countries. |
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Data Mining |
The practice of examining large databases in order to generate new information. |
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Artificial Intelligence |
The theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, language translation, data collection and analysis, etc. |
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Robot Journalism |
The use of software programs to generate articles, reports, and other types of content. |
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What are the two pillars (steps) of Robot Journalism? |
Data mining discovers new facts, and algorithms convert these facts into news stories without human involvement. |
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Quill Algorithm |
This is an algorithm based on artificial intelligence, which writes its own news stories. However, it depends on data; it cannot initiate stories on its own without the data and a well-defined question or algorithm. |
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What are the defining features of the quill algorithm? |
It creates a revolutionary approach to business analytics and natural language communication. It is also a mixture of data analytics, artificial intelligence, and editorial expertise. |
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Outline the stages of the quill algorithm's operation. |
Data reception, extraction of key facts and insights from the data employing AI algorithms, and transferring it into readable stories without human involvement. |
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How is the Quill Algorithm working to improve the quality of articles? |
By creating deeper and better analytics, more expressiveness, more interesting parallelism, and the use of metaphor. |
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Advantages of the Quill Algorithm |
It is fast, safe, cheap, unbiased (if programmed the right way), rarely misses facts, never gets tired, and does not have to get involved with doing "dirty work" to get its story. |
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Disadvantages of the Quill Algorithm |
It takes away jobs from journalists, does not incorporate the human touch in its stories, can be hacked, manipulated, or programmed to be biased, and the creative freedom of journalists is gone. |
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Limitations of the Quill Algorithm |
Results can be meaningless and add no real value and could lead to wrong decisions, false procedures, conclusions can be totally incorrect, they must be validated by tests, logic and reasoning, the ability to understand human natural language, especially the context of the idea, metaphors, humor an poetry, understanding of natural language cannot go beyond bureaucratic level, they cannot ask questions but can only attempt to answer them, they cannot integrate the new knowledge into suggestions for policy and change, and they cannot be innovative (invent new things). |
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Automated insights of the Quill Algorithm |
This algorithm allows the writing of stories in any desired journalistic format. Its real-time stories can be published on any scale in multiple formats. It humanizes data by spotting patterns and key insights. |
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Robot Agents |
A service system created by "News on Demand" that gathers new information daily by using a robot agent and delivers integrated news to users. |
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Robot Editors |
An algorithm developed by Google News Service that abolishes the need for human intervention; an algorithm that "crawls" through thousands of news sites and determines automatically which stories to publish with the relevant links. |
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Mobile Robot Article Generators |
Developed by Matsumoto's group for autonomous (individual) exploration, recording news, and generation of news articles. |
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Mobile robot article generators are designed to select the news by... |
...ranking the shortage of the news items and their relevance. |
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Mobile robot article generators are designed to explore... |
...the real world, take photos, transfer the info to a “news classifier” that calculates a “new source”; if the score was high enough, the “article generator” produces it to an article. |
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Telepresence Mobile Robots |
A remote-controlled, wheeled device with a display to enable video chat and video conferencing, among other purposes. |
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The Beam System |
A system designed to enable the remote presence of a human journalist at an event, without physically being there. It has the ability to conduct an interview in a manner similar to a video-conference and enables interactions with other beams in the area to represent users. |
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Double |
A telepresence mobile robot and the ultimate tool for telecommunicating. It is a remotely controlled mobile teleconferencing system, enabling conferences to happen anywhere at anytime. |
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Anybots |
A telepresence mobile robot that offers the most interactive forms of communication today by providing the user a personal remote avatar. |
