BuzzFeed debuts Botatouille, a free chatbot that suggests recipes from its food brand Tasty, and plans to offer AI-personalized services to sell subscriptions
New York Times Benjamin Mullin
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Ben Mullin
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I asked BuzzFeed's new A.I. chatbot what it would recommend for a laid-off digital media worker: https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
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@minimaxir
Max Woolf
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So this is what I've been working on for the past few months at @BuzzFeed! https://www.nytimes.com/...
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Jill Krajewski
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[5 minutes later] an unknown blue assailant has fed rat poison to botatouille https://twitter.com/...
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Brian Morrissey
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I'm sure this will elicit snark bc of the messenger, but this approach strikes me as right bc publishers will, at a minimum, need to adapt to shifting user expectations. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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BuzzFeed introduced its latest AI offering on Tuesday: an AI-powered kitchen assistant called Botatouille. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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Ryan McCarthy
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BuzzFeed plans to sell subscriptions to an AI chatbot that will recommend... BuzzFeed recipes to you. So much of AI right now is just straight hashtag-content uroboros https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
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Lincoln Michel
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Pixar meets The Last of Us movie about botulism toxin controlling a chef https://twitter.com/...
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Delia
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A little too botulism evoking for me https://twitter.com/...
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Hey @peretti the answer to ruining @BuzzFeedNews is not to find something new to fail at rather than fixing the problems of a fundamentally broken company. @Disney dodged a nuclear mortar, not just a bullet, when the buyout fell apart. @BenMullin @nytimes ... I hope to salvage...…
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Rainy day? Botatouille, Buzzfeed's A.I. chatbot, recommends winter chili or lentil soup. Feeling lonely? Botatouille suggests chocolate chip cookies or a vegetable curry. The bot may also recommend shepherd's pie, which it quipped was its mother's recipe. https://www.nytimes.com/…
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BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti on A.I.: “Even if you were, like, an evil C.E.O. trying to replace all journalists with A.I., you would be very unsuccessful.” https://www.nytimes.com/...