1) Voitto is a robot created by Yle News in 2016 to generate news articles and images without human proofreading or editing. 2) Voitto was trained to watch FIFA World Cup 2018 matches and automatically edit goal highlight clips. 3) Voitto now works as a personal assistant in Yle's News Watch app, getting to know users and notifying them about news they want to miss. 4) The document discusses using AI like Voitto responsibly and ethically, with oversight of its development and uses.

1. Jarkko Ryynänen
Product Owner
A robot called Voitto
from content creation to AI ethics
Aki Kekäläinen
Head of Web Development,
Lead Designer
Yle News and Current Affairs
8.11.2018

2. ● Voitto was born in December 2016
● He is named after legendary sports
commentator - name also means
Victory in english
● He creates about 100 articles and
250 images every week - directly to
production, no proof reading by
humans
This is Voitto the Robot

3. ● Examples:
ice hockey
football
floorball
elections
Voitto the Journalist

4. ● FIFA World Cup 2018
● Task: watch match, find goals and
edit goal clips
● Just an simple experiment:
○ Machine learning
○ Watch score board
○ When score changes rewind
and edit 40 second video
Voitto the Video Editor

5. ● Works as a personal assistant in
Yle’s News Watch app
● He gets to know you and helps
you be informed about the
news you don’t want to miss
● We call the feature Voitto’s
Smart Notifications
Voitto the Personal Assistant

6. ● Voitto will make us all smarter -
augmented intelligence
○ He will be our journalists’
new best friend
● Experimental: Twitter, voice
● More stories: sports, politics,
weather
● Stories for just one
Voitto’s Career Plan

7. ””For 150 or more years, news has
focused on stories of the most
interest to the most people.”
Reg Chua
Executive Editor, Editorial Operations,
Data and Innovation at Thomson Reuters

8. AI has some
serious image
problems...

9. Pros:
Effective and
goal oriented
Cons:
Not an ideal
co-worker
(for humans)
Who is creating the system
and for what purpose?

10. AI Ethics
Kuva: MIT
● There are only human ethics
● Machines do what we want
● We humans are the problem!
We are not specific - there are
really difficult questions we
need to solve
● Building AI’s will force us to
think more about ethics

11. Voitto the Nice Robot
● It is all about who is building the AI and
for what purpose
● We want Voitto to help people, to be a
tool for making things better - Voitto
needs to have values
● In practise: everyone building Voitto
needs to understand what Voitto
should and shouldn’t do and
how Voitto behaves

14. ● The caretakers: Only carefully selected
people work with our most important
algorithms
● The conscience: We are starting
multidisciplinary teams to share
understanding and think about big
questions like ethics of our future AIs
● Transparency: Tell people
what you are doing and how
Our Safety Mechanisms