For three decades, journalist Per Kristian Bjørkeng has covered technology for Aftenposten. But never have the changes seemed as momentous to him as the current surge of Artificial Intelligence (AI). We asked Per Kristian to tell us how he as an AI expert and technology journalist himself uses ChatGPT and
Norway’s leading news site, VG, has already developed a large portfolio of AI tools for its journalists. Here is how journalist Martin Folkvord used AI to scan through 6,000 documents looking for signs of illegal adoptions. How can artificial intelligence (AI) be used in investigative journalism? At a session at
A ChatGPT enterprise agreement with OpenAI, GitHub Copilot, an AI Academy and an AI training course are just some of the ways Schibsted readies its employees for a future alongside AI. “We believe that the use and competence of AI among all employees who can use the tools must increase;
AI helped E24 reveal how a Norwegian minister had plagiarised text in her master essay. She left her job. Schibsted’s news media companies are setting up their organisations to improve journalism and user experience and to make work more efficient, with the help of AI. There are now AI-responsible people
Three of Schibsted’s newspapers – Aftenposten, Svenska Dagbladet and Aftonbladet – now have their own AI voices. The rest of the large papers will soon follow. Offering an option to listen to news and stories is becoming increasingly important to meet user needs. “Time spent on audio is growing rapidly.
Schibsted’s Swedish media houses dominate this year’s nominations for Stora Journalistpriset. Every third nomination, four out of twelve, comes either from Aftonbladet or Svenska Dagbladet. “I am incredibly proud of the journalism created by our newsrooms, these four nominations are proof that our journalism makes a difference,” says Siv Juvik
Schibsted participated in the Nordic Perspectives on AI conference in Oslo, discussing the important topics of artificial intelligence and its rapid development affecting research, business and society. “Artificial intelligence and language models are central technologies and tools for all businesses, but for Schibsted they hit the heart of what we
Aftonbladet is creating a new focus area combining journalism and artificial intelligence. Seven employees will work full-time in a new AI hub to explore the new technology and what it can do for journalism. The cross-functional group will explore, test and implement AI in Aftonbladet to make work more efficient
Schibsted is strengthening its strategic focus on AI. Two internal teams – Schibsted Futures Lab and the AI Enablement program – will merge and grow – to support all of Schibsted’s use of AI technology. The new team will also be strengthened by two senior data scientists from the data
Hundreds of software engineers in Schibsted now use Artificial Intelligence to help them write code. “My productivity has grown at least 15 %,” estimates Pedro Goncalves. Good software engineering requires lots of creativity as well as superb skills in solving problems. But the daily work is also full of tedious
Eivind Hjertholm Fiskerud, Bergens Tidende’s long term development editor, will contribute to advancing the work on artificial intelligence (AI) in Schibsted’s Norwegian and Swedish media houses. In recent months, alongside his role as development editor, Fiskerud has been central to a project across Schibsted’s news division, which has examined, among
A fact checker that tells you what is true and not in tv-debates, an AI-generated podcast featuring the most popular articles and the Aftonbladet AI chatbot. These are only three out of seven ideas from an AI hackathon arranged by Aftonbladet. “It was amazing to see how many innovative ideas