🤖 Ask Away: Washington Post’s AI-Powered Answers

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Washington Post Launches Climate Answers AI Chatbot

The Washington Post is taking a neat step in AI innovation with the launch of its experimental climate-focused chatbot, Climate Answers.

This tool, now available on the homepage, app, and within articles, uses The Post's extensive climate reporting to deliver concise, data-driven responses to reader questions. Curious minds can ask about everything from the benefits of solar panels to areas in the US where sea levels are rising fastest. Drawing from archives dating back to 2016, the chatbot provides not only answers, but also links to the original articles and relevant excerpts.

Vineet Khosla, The Post’s chief technology officer, highlighted the richness of their data: “Somewhere in the years and years of the data-rich reporting we have done, there is an answer buried in one of the things we have written.” This AI tool, powered by a large language model from OpenAI and potentially others like Mistral and Meta’s Llama, will be comfortable saying “I don’t know” when lacking information. This differentiates it compared to other AI services that sometimes spread misinformation.

Launching Climate Answers marks a significant step in integrating AI for The Washington Post, which is also exploring AI-powered article summaries. The initiative is part of a broader trend among media companies, including the Financial Times’ Ask FT, to enhance reader engagement through AI.

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