{"id":25,"date":"2020-08-09T16:26:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T20:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2020-08-26T10:25:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T14:25:31","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This blog was started on August 9, 2020, as a personal project by Mindy McAdams<\/a>, a professor in the department of journalism at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the inaugural post.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been reading books and articles about AI \u2014 and watching videos too \u2014 intensively since May this year. As an instructor, of course I have my own ways of keeping track of all the things<\/em>. But I’ve been yearning for a more public and informal repository as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My intention is to share useful resources and also say a bit about what I’ve learned, what concerns me or makes me feel worried, and what I think is especially wonderful or super cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t expect to see articles from the computer science journals here (although I can’t promise there will never<\/em> be one). But also, I don’t plan to link to random Op-Eds about the threats from our future robot overlords. Please.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m working to compile a set of resources for undergraduate students who want to go into the communication professions \u2014 not only journalism, but advertising and public relations as well. The exaggerated claims I see bandied about (in the business press especially) have made me worry about the likelihood of errors and misperceptions \u2014 not only in news reports but also in business decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along the way I’ve encountered way too much to ever fit into a one-semester course. What I hope to do here is share the best and most interesting things I’ve come across.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This blog was started on August 9, 2020, as a personal project by Mindy McAdams, a professor in the department of journalism at the University of Florida. Read the inaugural post. I’ve been reading books and articles about AI \u2014 and watching videos too \u2014 intensively since May this year. As an instructor, of course… Continue reading About<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}