Today, I saw an article on Linked in about how the Encyclopedia Brittanica is now positioning itself as an AI research company (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7275863301777997824/).
This is a reminder that, with the AI Era, any company with access to data has a valuable asset. This makes me think of newspapers.
Major newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune, have over 100 years of articles, information, reviews, etc. I always thought that one thing that can save them is to partner with other media to present "infotainment", such as a streaming series on organized crime during Prohibition, etc.
Now, I think they can also become AI research tools. They can create interfaces that let people type in a prompt and it can present research from its archives, with the reference line generated. Perhaps they can set the paywall so that, someone clicking on the reference inserted in an paper than allows them to read only that article.
It would allow students and researchers to be able to expand the first-person resources they can use.
Major newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune, have over 100 years of articles, information, reviews, etc. I always thought that one thing that can save them is to partner with other media to present "infotainment", such as a streaming series on organized crime during Prohibition, etc.
Now, I think they can also become AI research tools. They can create interfaces that let people type in a prompt and it can present research from its archives, with the reference line generated. Perhaps they can set the paywall so that, someone clicking on the reference inserted in an paper than allows them to read only that article.
It would allow students and researchers to be able to expand the first-person resources they can use.
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