Digital Media & Artificial Intelligence (AI) : Broadcast – Journalism - Deepfakes

Back in the 1950s, the pioneers of artificial intelligence assumed that learning and artificial intelligence (AI) could be performed by a machine. Since then, and especially since the 2000s, this sector of computing has experienced significant growth in all fields, and there has been huge human and financial investment by major players worldwide in the development of projects and products that include AI. In the U.S.A.: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft – and in China: Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent.

AI calls on a wide range of knowledge and technologies: cognitive sciences, learning modes and machine learning, automatic speech processing, signal and image analysis and processing, computer vision, robotics...

The aim of this and the previous article [TE 5 897] is to provide an overview of the quantity and diversity of AI applications in digital media, which have been multiplying since the mid-2010s.

The first article [TE 5 897] offers in three parts:

• a review of the principles, components and techniques of AI, as well as its uses;

• a sample of AI applications in the field of images (photo, film, video);

• a sample of AI applications in the field of sound (speech, 3D audio, music).

This second article :

• renders these and other AI applications in the broadcast and media industry at the functional and usage level (§ 1 );

• focuses on two case studies:

• journalism and AI (§ 2