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AI Publishing News: Week Ending 02/02/2024

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The New York Times is building a team to explore AI in the newsroom

Seward’s post said the Times plans to hire a machine learning engineer, a software engineer, a designer, and a couple of editors to round out the AI newsroom initiative. So far, the Times has posted job listings for an associate editorial director for AI initiatives and a senior design editor.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/30/24055718/new-york-times-generative-ai-machine-learning

We’re building a team at the NYTimes focused on prototyping uses of generative AI and other machine-learning techniques to help with reporting and how The Times is presented to readers. Jobs are posting this week for a machine-learning engineer, software engineer, designer, and editor. I’ll thread links here as they go up. Please spread the word, thanks!

https://www.threads.net/@zseward/post/C2upYZZOEVT

The New York Times is forming an “AI initiatives” team to prototype generative AI uses for reporting and presentation.  Of note: They emphasize that its journalism will still be human-written.

The New York Times is building a Generative AI team.https://twitter.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1752398976819875843

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AI News #18: Week Ending 02/02/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 12 Stories

The post you just read is an extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

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