If you're going to discuss AI, liquid content, synthetic content, it's best to do so surrounded by large, physical artworks. The House of Communication did not disappoint. My takeaways from Medientage München: An overview of the future of search by Jacqueline Hoffmann, with numerous links to new AI search engines (perhaps I'm flattered to be...
Hi, I'm Ole Reissmann, a journalist who builds things. I'm the first Director of AI at SPIEGEL. Before that: podcasts, news product development, platform strategy. I write about AI and journalism and send a newsletter you might enjoy.
What does the future of media look like with artificial intelligence?
For DER SPIEGEL's birthday, I was asked about my perspective on the future. I wrote 30 observations. The article is in German, but here are some of them abbreviated: The year is 2022. A Google developer goes public. His company is developing a chatbot that he believes has become conscious. At Google, they laugh at...
How to tell AI-generated Trump and Harris voices from the real ones (Pranshu Verma, Rekha Tenjarla, Bishop Sand, WaPost)
Business Insider’s new AI-powered search (Barbara Peng, Business Insider)
Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week (Simon Willison, Simon Willison’s Weblog)
What Generative AI Means for the Media Industries, and Why it Matters to Study the Collective Consequences for Advertising, Journalism, and Public Relations (Andrea L. Guzman, Seth C. Lewis, Emerging Media)
Thinking Like an AI. A little intuition can help (Ethan Mollick, One Useful Thing)
LongWriter: Unleashing 10,000+ Word Generation from Long Context LLMs (Yushi Bai, Jiajie Zhang, Xin Lv, Linzhi Zheng, Siqi Zhu, Lei Hou, Yuxiao Dong, Jie Tang, Juanzi Li, arxiv.org)
Trump’s Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age (Peter Baker, Dylan Freedman, NYTimes)
Using generative AI as a scraping assistant (Paul Bradshaw, Online Journalism Blog)
