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AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff right now
I gave a talk last month at the Story Discovery at Scale data journalism conference hosted at Stanford by Big Local News. My brief was to go deep into the things we can use Large Language Models for right now, illustrated by a flurry of demos to help provide starting points for further conversations at the conference.
[... 6080 words]I’m on the Newsroom Robots podcast, with thoughts on the OpenAI board
Newsroom Robots is a weekly podcast exploring the intersection of AI and journalism, hosted by Nikita Roy.
[... 1032 words]Example of OpenAI function calling API to extract data from LAPD newsroom articles (via) Fascinating code example from Kyle McDonald. The OpenAI functions mechanism is intended to drive custom function calls, but I hadn’t quite appreciated how useful it can be ignoring the function calls entirely. Kyle instead uses it to define a schema for data he wants to extract from a news article, then uses the gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 to get back that exact set of extracted data as JSON. # 14th June 2023, 8:57 pm
Weeknotes: NICAR, and an appearance on KQED Forum
I spent most of this week at NICAR 2023, the data journalism conference hosted this year in Nashville, Tennessee.
[... 1941 words]Getting tabular data from unstructured text with GPT-3: an ongoing experiment (via) Roberto Rocha shows how to use a carefully designed prompt (with plenty of examples) to get GPT-3 to convert unstructured textual data into a structured table. # 5th October 2022, 3:03 am