The New York Times Co. is using machine learning to deliver all the news that is fit to print – and to craft a suite of innovative tools for advertisers.
“We have a group that is expert in developing and deploying machine-learning solutions both to newsroom and business problems,” Chris Wiggins, the news organization’s chief data scientist, told delegates at The AI Summit, a conference held by Informa in New York.
Machine learning, he further explained, can be defined as the creation of systems that learn and improve with experience....