JOMC 491/891.002 | 3 credit hours AI + CoJMC = ?MW 3:30pm-4:45pm
AI went from science fiction to current fact with breathtaking speed. Soon, you'll have AI plugged into every tool you use, including Word, Google Docs and your email. Journalism and communications are only starting to grapple with this. This class, the first of its kind at CoJMC, will explore three areas: 1. What is AI, how does it work, what is it good and bad at? 2. How can you use current public AI tools to be a better writer, reporter and human? 3. What if we trained our own AI on a local news source? It's possible with open tools. Would it be any good? Would it be accurate enough to be useful? What could you do with your own AI tool?
Faculty: Matt Waite