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Articles tagged chatbot (10)

Andrew DeckJuly 23, 2024

Why “Sorry, I don’t know” is sometimes the best answer: The Washington Post’s technology chief on its first AI chatbot

“For Google, that might be failure mode…but for us, that is success,” says the Post’s Vineet Khosla

Colin Lecher, The MarkupMay 13, 2024

This journalism professor made a NYC chatbot in minutes. It actually worked.

“The step that we need to make as a society is moving from, ‘This came from a machine, it must be correct,’ to, if I’m talking to a friend of mine who says something crazy, ‘I need to double check that, I need to cross reference it to make sure that it is accurate.'”

Sarah ScireFebruary 28, 2024

San Francisco Chronicle tries an AI chatbot — er, Chowbot — for food recs

Chowbot is the Chronicle’s “first real foray into audience-facing AI.”

A referendum on media experiments? Here’s what news organizations are toying with in the 2018 election cycle

People from 433 out of 435 congressional districts have signed up for ProPublica’s User Guide to Democracy, reporters from the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times want you to text them, and more. Christine Schmidt

Kirsten HanAugust 21, 2018

Line is another chat app rife with spam, scams, and bad information. The volunteer-supported Cofacts is fact-checking them in the open

Users forward dubious messages to a chatbot; volunteer editors evaluate their credibility; the bot answers back to the user (and anyone wondering in the future).

Christine SchmidtMay 11, 2018

BuzzFeed News’ podcast cohost, Jojo the bot, wants to help listeners follow along without friction

“One of our goals has been to talk about the news in a way that invites our audience into the news cycle. We’re trying to make it a little bit easier for people to be engaged.”

Christine SchmidtMarch 30, 2018

After big Denver Post layoffs, the Fort Collins Coloradoan thinks beyond local

A neighborhood watch Facebook group, reader chatbot, and a state-focused project: “We all serve the greater Coloradoan community and we each have parts to play in that.”

Laura Hazard OwenNovember 2, 2017

Hack the Radio, a French startup, aims to liberate podcasts by streaming audio from a chatbot

“If audio isn’t easily made viral, maybe it can be something else as strong.”

Shan WangJuly 28, 2017

On the heels of its own success, Spain’s Politibot is opening up a chatbot builder for other outlets

“Problems news organizations will run into, we’ve run into before, we can help them with that, and we can hopefully help them get the same retention and engagement we did.”

Taylyn Washington-HarmonJuly 8, 2016

The Slack app Carebot is a prototype that seeks to help change how we think about analytics

What happens when you bring real-time, on-demand analytics to Slack?