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The AI Upgrade
Welcome to The AI Upgrade, your weekly guide to understanding and unpacking the AI revolution. Made for professionals upskilling in the age of AI, this podcast is a must-listen for knowledge workers.
Each week, hosts Peter Bittner & Kris Krug chat with experts, founders, journalists, and technologists to understand the trends and impacts of AI on media. Interested in understanding the impacts of AI and other next-gen technologies on how we create, distribute, and access stories? The AI Upgrade is for you!
The AI Upgrade
Ep. 10 – Robot Reporters of the Future
John Biggs imagines a time in the near future where a human editor will manage a team of robot journalists using AI to report the news. A programmer turned journalist, Biggs is now co-founder of The Media Copilot, a consulting and media group that examines how AI is changing journalism and the news. In this episode of The Upgrade, Biggs spoke with host Peter Bittner about AI’s effect on the media industry and what newsrooms of the future might look like.
Show Notes:
(00:26) John talks about the Media Copilot, a new tool for media and PR professionals
(5:14) The mysterious connection between longshoremen and journalists
(7:57) John describes the future world he imagines where robot journalists will report the news with the assistance of humans
(9:00) How reporting tasks could eventually be divided between humans and AI tools
(12:39) The effect Google Books had on the traditional publishing industry
(15:01) The New York Times vs. OpenAI
(16:48) Ways that publications could get paid when AI scrapes proprietary data
(18:16) The half-human centaur editor
(19:39) John’s take on the most over and underhyped aspects of AI
(21:54) Some of the most critical things professionals need to get up to speed on about AI
For more on the Media Copilot visit their website:
The Media Copilot’s Substack:
https://mediacopilot.substack.com
The new tool Sublimewire that Biggs created uses AI to help media professionals write blog posts:
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