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Financial Times tests an AI chatbot trained on decades of its own articles


Will media outlets create their own AI bots like Ask FT?

It can provide responses to questions about current events, like how much funding Intel received from the US government under the CHIPS Act, as well as broader queries, like the effect of cryptocurrency on the environment. Last year, we tried a similar tool deployed by the digital outlets owned by the marketing company Foundry, including Macworld, PCWorld, and Tech Advisor. However, at the time it wasn’t as useful as Ask FT is; my colleague Mia Sato found it provided inaccurate results to simple questions like when the last iPod Nano was released.

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