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Dec 2024
31m 38s

Can AI tell us what stories to look out ...

KCRW & Placement Theory
About this episode

Our team at Question Everything has been playing around with a new technology that sucks up tons of social media posts, and then uses AI to figure out what ideas are forming in the shadows of the internet before they hit the mainstream.

Brian interviews a journalist who uses this tech, to see what conversations are brewing right now that we might want to keep an eye out for in the coming weeks.

“Question Everything” is a production of KCRW and Placement Theory.

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