a sensational scoop Elon Musk’s ‘massive space sex rocket’ exploded on launch. Unfortunately, it turned out to be an automatic typo by billionaire rocket company SpaceX. Errors may be a taste of what comes as artificial intelligence (AI) plays a bigger role in the newsroom.
Machines have helped deliver news for years: Associated Press (APs) began issuing automated corporate earnings reports in 2014. new york times We use machine learning to determine how many free articles to show readers before hitting the paywall. German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk moderates the online comments. AI help. APs It also expands to create video “shot lists” that explain who and what is in each clip.
As AI It has been improved and has a more creative role. One is newscasting. At Reuters, machines look for patterns in massive datasets. APs Usage AI Event detection scans social media for news ripples. At a journalism conference in Perugia, Italy last month, Northwestern University’s Nick Diakopoulos demonstrated how to chat.GPThit Love chatbot, It can be used to assess the newsworthiness of research papers. The correlation coefficient between his model’s judgment and the human editor’s judgment was 0.58. This might match well enough for a busy newsroom to do an initial sift through.
chatGPT– like “generative” AIs is also getting better at writing and editing.Used by news startup Semafor AI Proofread your story.radar AI, a UK company produces data-driven articles for local newspapers (“Reveals: Map shows number of accessible toilets in South Essex”). Its five human journalists have submitted over 400,000 of her partially automated articles since 2018. AI A tool that converts long articles from the social network Snapchat into short packages. News executives see the potential in automatically recreating articles for different formats and audiences.
Some see a big shift in what this means for the news industry. AI “The next three years will change journalism more than it has changed in the last three decades,” predicts David Caswell. BBC news. By remixing information from across the internet, the generative model is “twiddling with the basic units of journalism”: Articles. It states that it can be a kind of “soup” for language.
Many hackers have more mundane concerns, mostly about their work.As in other industries, employers AI as an assistant rather than a substitute. But that could change. “We are not here to save journalists, we are here to save journalism,” Semafor executive her editor Gina Chua said at a conference in Perugia. The industry needs all the help it can get. On April 20, BuzzFeed shut down its Pulitzer Prize-winning news business. A week later, former digital media darlings Vice made the cut. He is reportedly preparing to go bankrupt.as Lisa Gibbs APs “Regarding the challenge of hiring journalists, [AI] Not at the top of the list. ” ■
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