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Friday, March 7, from 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Cost: $40

Instructor: Jonathan Soma, Columbia University

Move beyond the chatbots and learn to leverage more advanced AI techniques. We'll cover what possibilities exist for AI across text, audio, images and video, including extracting structured data from messy documents, transcribing local government meetings, building proof-of-concept tools to share with coworkers, avoiding cloud-based services like OpenAI and Anthropic, and staying up-to-date with progress in the field.

You’ll get the most out of the session with a working knowledge of Python, but we’ll also cover non-coding options when they exist. Participants will leave confident about discussing, prototyping, and evaluating AI tools in their newsroom, and won’t giggle (so much) when they hear the phrase “Hugging Face.”