News Websites

A list of different websites that have topical news on the subject of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

• AI news at ScienceDaily.com
• AI topics news at AItopics.org
• AI weekly
• Machine Learning Daily
• insideBIGDATA

Hot Topics

• Machine Learning at Reddit.com
• Singularity at Reddit.com
• Artificial Intelligence at Reddit.com

Other News Items

• Exclusive: Inside Facebook’s AI Hackathon
• Computers Get Busy for National Novel-Generating Month – The New Stack
• Julia Gets $600K

Data & Information Overload – Why we need AI

• How Much Information – An attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. [Results are available in multiple formats and levels of detail.]
• Managing information – Ways to assist a person in deciding what information is actually needed.
• Information Overload Annotated Webliography – A collection of links about Information Overload.
• Change and Information Overload: Negative Effects – Even the intellectually most advanced groups, the researchers, educators, managers and technologists, often feel overwhelmed by the changes in their domain.
• Spinning Around – Information overload isn’t just sending individuals around the bend, it’s hurting productivity, writes David Adams. [The Sydney Morning Herald]
• Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an age of InfoGlut, Info-Garbage, Info-Glitz and Info-Glimmer – Schools must make a dramatically expanded commitment to questioning, research, information literacy and student-centered classrooms. Students will need a radically different skills array to negotiate this new information landscape.
• Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload – Article discussing how artificial intelligence offers some solutions to problems of actively managing information.
• Desperately Seeking: Helping Hands and Human Touch – Looks at a number of solutions, including “agency,” agent-like applications, improvements in the information chain and information brokering, which may help deal with information overload in the online marketplace. by Bjorn Hermans.
• Information Overload – An abstract of a study by M.Montebello. Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval: A South American Symposium.
• The Register – Data Dyspepsia Blights the Workforce – Research from Gartner has found that 90% of companies believe they get too much information pumped through to them on a regular basis.
• eCFO – Fighting Information Overload – Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most useful data.
• NYTimes.com – Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom – Text mining is becoming a viable option for everyday citizens seeking to read, summarize or analyze large numbers of documents.
• Informing Ourselves to Death – A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society.
• The Role of Contextual Clues in the Creation of Information Overload – This paper presents the results from, and analysis of, a case study of a perceived problem of information overload from e-mail in a large international organisation.

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