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entirely written by a human, so what s going on? today, we re dedicating the whole programme to these questions. with me are madhumita murgia, artificial intelligence editor at the financial times, sky news science and technology editor, tom clarke, eliz mizon, from independent media cooperative the bristol cable, as well as jackson ryan, science editor at cnet. welcome to you all. and i think we should start with the basics. madhu, if i could bring you in, from the financial times, explain what we mean by aland why, particularly in terms of the role ofjournalism it has, why it s getting so much coverage now. well, so, ai is artificial intelligence and, i mean, supposedly it s a mechanical computer version of human intelligence, or at least that s the hope, right? but today, what we have is, it s basically a powerful statistical system, a computer software, which finds patterns in large amounts of data. but what this means is that it can, you know, find diagnoses from ....
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now on bbc news, click this week we look at how artificial intelligence is being harnessed to help produce music and dance, from pop. # watch them fall. # like domi dominoes.#. ..to ballet. beatboxes. nick checks out the whisky distillery aiming to become more sustainable. put that in front of a cow, it would be very happy. i m not sure. i don t know what s going on there, to be honest. ..and lara is eating again. i m going to have a bit more of that one. let s just have a bit more of a think about how it tastes and. ..it s quite nice. hi, there. i wonder if you could tell me what frank sinatra, madonna, dua lipa and ed sheeran some of the biggest names in music history all have in common. well, they were all signed to warner records. but now, that company is working with a very different kind of artist, and shiona mccallum has been to berlin to find out more. this is noonoouri. she s a virtual character, an instagram influencer, and has worked with fashion brands ....
and what we re talking about today is generative ai, which is software that can actually create and generate things that include words, images, code, even video. and how widely is it being used in newsrooms, do you think? i mean, what s the financial times doing, for example? so, i think, over the last six months, it would be impossible to ignore it if you were a newsroom with a digital operation that was trying to reach people online. i think you d have to be aware and, you know, and have to be experimenting with it. most big, large news publishers are doing it the ft is. we would. we ve put out, our editor put out a letter saying we re not going to be publishing any stories that are written by ai, but we will be looking at how it might help journalists do theirjobs better, things like summarising complex documents, like, you know, tax documents or, you know, readouts from court cases, things like that, that are difficult for humans to read lots of, very quickly. it ....
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