MEDIA IN THEDIGITAL AGE: MACHINE LEARNING, ALGORITHMICREPORTINGAND NON-FUNCTIONAL HUMAN PROBLEMATICIN JOURNALISM

Year 2020, Volume: 13 Issue: 1, 294 - 313, 27.01.2020

Serkan Bulut

Abstract

In the early 1900s, what can be imagined for many societies is easily experienced today. The technological process that deeply affects all life forms and fields has a profound impact on journalism and reporting as in many other professions. The algorithmic intervention eliminates the problem of time, effort and space, and provides news production processes much faster than ever. The machine learning in artificial intelligence brings aboutthe realization of a series of human abilities and reflexes by robots. Technological progress has created stressful and painful transformations in every period and left deep effects. The possible outcome of this progress in the future begins to appear more sharply. The widespread use of artificial intelligence software in professions leads to an emotional dissolution of populations in large populations. For this reason, people's lack of occupation and the risk of becoming a dysfunctional living have begun to be discussed. Thanks to machine learning, robot software starts to think and act like people and creates new solutions with the impression they gained from their previous experiences. A software technology that is close to the human mind and learning, increases the influence and the areas in which it occupies every day. This study discusses the effects of artificial intelligence development on society,professions and journalism based on the concepts of artificial intelligence software and machine learning.

DİJİTAL ÇAĞDA MEDYA: MAKİNE ÖĞRENMESİ, ALGORİTMİK HABERCİLİK VE GAZETECİLİKTE İŞLEVSİZ İNSAN SORUNSALI

Abstract

Bugün yapay zekâ
teknolojisi alanında yaşananlar, 1900’lü yılların başlarında birçok toplum için
hayal denilebilecek şeylerdir. Tüm yaşam formlarını ve alanlarını derinden
etkileyen teknolojik süreç, birçok mesleği olduğu gibi gazetecilik ve
habercilik mesleklerini de derinden etkilemektedir. Zaman, emek ve mekân
bağımlılığını ortadan kaldıran, her zaman olduğundan çok daha hızlı bir biçimde
haber üretim süreçleri sağlayan algoritmik etki, yapay zekâda makine öğrenmesi
ile insana özgü bir takım yetenek ve reflekslerin, robotlar tarafından da
gerçekleşmesini beraberinde getirmektedir. Teknolojik ilerleme her dönemde
stresli ve sancılı dönüşümler yaratmış ve derin etkiler bırakmıştır. Bu
ilerlemenin gelecekte ortaya koyabileceği sonuç ise çok daha keskin biçimde
belirmeye başlamaktadır. Yapay zekâ yazılımlarının mesleklerde yaygın kullanımı,
toplumları büyük nüfuslar halinde duygusal bir çözülmeye götürmektedir. Bu
nedenle insanların mesleksiz kalmaları ve işlevsiz birer canlıya dönüşme riski
tartışılmaya başlamıştır. Özellikle makine öğrenmesi sayesinde robot yazılımlar
insanlar gibi düşünmeye ve hareket etmeye başlamakta ve yeni çözümlerini önceki
deneyimlerinden kazandıkları izlenimleri ile oluşturmaktadır. Deyim yerindeyse
insan aklına ve öğrenmesine yakın bir yazılım teknolojisi etkisini, iş
kollarında ve yer edindiği alanlarda her geçen gün arttırmaktadır. Bu çalışma,
yapay zekâ yazılımları ile makine öğrenmesi kavramlarından hareketle yapay zekâ
gelişmelerinin insanlar ve meslekler üzerindeki etkisini tartışmaktadır. 

Keywords

Algoritmik Habercilik, Dijital Medya, İşsizlik, Makine Öğrenmesi, Yapay Zekâ

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