Tag: internet

  • Why ‘deepfake’ videos are becoming more difficult to detect | Miles O'Brien Productions

    Why ‘deepfake’ videos are becoming more difficult to detect

    Sophisticated and inaccurate altered videos known as “deepfakes” are causing alarm in the digital realm. The highly realistic manipulated videos are the subject of a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday. As PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports, the accelerating speed of computers and advances in machine learning make deepfakes ever more difficult to…

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  • Want to learn about junk news? Here’s all our reporting. | Miles O'Brien Productions

    Want to learn about junk news? Here’s all our award-winning reporting.

    UPDATE 6/13/19: This series won a 2019 Mirror Award for Best Story on Social Media in the Crosshairs, tied with a BuzzFeed News series focusing on the same topic. After the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it became clear to a lot of people, including me, that the issue of fake news on the internet merited…

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  • The Promise and Peril of AI – Hash it Out with Tech Entrepreneur Lars Perkins | Miles O'Brien Productions

    The Promise and Peril of AI – Hash it Out with Tech Entrepreneur Lars Perkins

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not off in the distant future… in some ways it is already here. How is AI already changing our lives? Does it work independently of us or does it also have our all-too-human biases? After hashing out machine learning on Episode 19, Brian and Fedor sit down with Picasa founder and…

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  • What is Machine Learning and How is it Used? – Hash it Out with Cameron Hickey | Miles O'Brien Productions

    What is Machine Learning and How is it Used? – Hash it Out with Cameron Hickey

    What is machine learning? How does it work? What are these artificially intelligent algorithms useful for? Considering they are used by Amazon, Google, Netflix, Facebook and many other companies we interact with on a daily basis, what are the benefits and drawbacks? Thanks to a listener suggestion, we decided to delve deeper on the subject.…

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  • The Software We Wrote to Understand Junk News – with Producer Cameron Hickey | Miles O'Brien Productions

    The Software We Wrote to Understand Junk News – with Producer Cameron Hickey

    In the final episode in our series on Junk News, some wisdom from one of the leading experts in the murky world of online misinformation. He also happens to be the producer of the series that we aired on the PBS NewsHour. Now he’s taking the software he wrote to Harvard, where they hope to…

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  • Inside Facebook's race to separate news from junk | Miles O'Brien Productions

    Inside Facebook’s race to separate news from junk

    At Facebook, there are two competing goals: keep the platform free and open to a broad spectrum of ideas and opinions, while reducing the spread of misinformation. The company says it’s not in the business of making editorial judgments, so they use fact-checkers, artificial intelligence and their users. Can they stop junk news from adapting?…

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