In recent weeks, the spotlight of attention has fallen on new generative AI tools—such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing chatbot, and Google’s Bard—which have been subject to debate about their potential to refashion how journalists work.For data and computational journalists in particular, AI tools such as ChatGPT have the potential to assist in a variety of tasks such as writing code, scraping PDF files, and translating between programming languages. But tools like ChatGPT are far from perfect and have shown to ‘hallucinate’ data and scatter errors throughout the text they generate.We talked with Nicholas Diakopoulos, associate professor in communication studies and computer science at Northwestern University and a former Tow Fellow, about how to navigate those risks, whether ChatGPT can be a helpful tool for journalism students and novice programmers, and how journalists can track their steps when using AI.
Origen: Q&A: How can artificial intelligence help journalists? – Columbia Journalism Review
