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 could
what sources will i rely on to deliver trustworthy news? will it putjournalists out of a job? the chances are you ve already perhaps unknowingly read a news article that wasn t entirely written by a human. so what s going on? today, we re dedicating the whole programme to these questions. with me are the artificial intelligence editor at the financial times. sky news s science and technology editor tom clark and liz mizen 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. if i could bring you in from the financial times, explain what we mean by aland why particular in terms of the role ofjournalism and it has why it s getting so much coverage now. so ai is artificial intelligence. and i mean, supposedly it s a mechanical computer version of human intelligence. so at least that s the hope. right? but today what we have is it s basically a powerful statistical s
you know, find diagnoses from pictures of x rays or it can look through lots of words and help translate them into different languages. 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 doc
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with his personal aide, walt nauta, and a new defended, mar-a-lago employee carlos de oliveira, with obstruction conspiracy. the new obstruction counter significant, and based on allegations that the defendants attempted to delete surveillance footage at mar-a-lago in the summer of 2022. that third defendant, carlos de oliveira, was maine and supervisor at mar-a-lago. also, trump already faced 31 counts of illegally retaining national defense information. this new indictment as a 32nd to the list. it s related to a recording of the former president and bedminster, where he is discussing classified documents involving iran. well, with milley, let me see that, i ll show you an example. he said that i wanted to attack iran. isn t it amazing? i have a big pile of papers, this thing will just come up. look. this was him. they presented me this. this is off the record. but they presented me this. this was him. this was the defense department and him. this was him. this wasn t d