The past decades in the media industry have been characterized by cost-cutting, efficiency programs and pressure to transform. The rapid development of generative AI is currently accelerating these tr...
Uli Koppen
Uli Köppen is Chief AI Officer at the German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) where she is responsible for AI strategy and ethical workflows, leading the AI Board at BR, working with the journalistic AI and data teams at Bavarian Broadcasting, and co-building an interdisciplinary AI Network for German public broadcasting.
Here be neurons.* How to tame neural networks in AI models, for us, in newsrooms and in society – using our human neural networks wisely. In 2023, we entered uncharted territory. After OpenAI made ...
Journalism GPT: it’s time to get serious about AI and automation in the newsroom
The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 may be a milestone on the road to newsroom automation. ChatGPT is already demonstrating plausible performance on journalistic tasks like summarisation and copy ...
The elephant in the room: could AI give technology giants more control over the news?
If you attended any news conference in recent years, one thing will have stuck out: almost everyone seems to be excited by the possibilities of using artificial intelligence for journalism. And indeed...
AI is a field that generates both hype and hysteria. How do you go about reporting on it responsibly and what needs to be kept in mind while you do so? In this session, some of the best names in the b...
AI is everywhere: algorithms navigate us, run Uber’s dispatcher, help judges make decisions and make governments smarter. It’s time for investigative journalists to step back from the hype and hol...
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