Ludwig Siegele

Could you help shape the future of The Economist? We are looking for a Technical Lead for our new AI Lab initiative. Apply by the end of May econ.st/42EJta6

The Economist has found a way to publish AI-written translations without human intervention (with only the odd embarrassing result) pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/how…

How should you talk to your kids about AI, particularly if they’re already using it and encountering it? @EconoScribe explains on “The Intelligence” podcast econ.st/3MzCs2L

哪种语言最难学？本刊语言专栏作家莱恩·格林为您解惑 econ.st/3X4V7Iy

Les drones bon marché transforment la guerre en Ukraine. Ils sont en train de redéfinir l'équilibre entre l'homme et la technologie sur le champ de bataille. @shashj, notre rédacteur défense, explique comment econ.st/3TeQAlJ

Was geschieht in Ihrem Gehirn, wenn Sie unter Burnout leiden? Dies ist die Wissenschaft hinter dem zu vielen Denken econ.st/4dJA2L1

📹 You can now watch The Economist’s videos in four additional languages: Spanish, German, French and Mandarin. Start with this thread, and find new videos in Spanish every week on Instagram and TikTok at economistespanol. These videos have been translated using AI 👇

Here is our first "AI product": Espresso, our short-form, daily news app will be offered free for students worldwide—and will come with AI-generated translations of text and video in French, German, Mandarin or Spanish economistgroup.com/press-centre/t…

Digital twins will redefine what it means to run a company. Bosses will manage a constantly churning “flywheel” fuelled by data (a joint production with George Gilbert, who you can find here: linkedin.com/in/george-gilb…) economist.com/science-and-te…

Our AI projects are coming along nicely, so I found some time to write... Here is my piece on AI regulation in this week's issue. economist.com/schools-brief/…

💥🧑‍💻We are so excited to announce the 25 journalists, media leaders, and academics from around the world that have been selected for the inaugural AI Journalism Lab cohort with support from @Microsoft! Let's get to know them ↓ journalism.cuny.edu/2024/04/meet-t…

Some more personal programming... My son Milo is running an online benefit auction to raise money for WEATHERPROOF, his contemporary art gallery in Chicago. Please do check out the lots on offer: theauctioncollective.com/auctions/the-w…

Whereas America boasts many computing clusters of more than 20,000 top-end ai chips, in Europe a 1,000-processor facility counts as big. The eu hopes to give its ai startups a boost by tapping its growing fleet of supercomputers (by me) economist.com/business/2024/…

Mistral is proof that the industry is already becoming more open—and less American. If it does mount a serious challenge to OpenAI, this would also confirm the suspicion of some in the industry that in generative AI, size is not everything economist.com/business/2024/…

It's fun to write about non-techie tech stuff: A growing number of new works, both fictional and factual, are written collaboratively in some way. Is a more collective approach to authorship on the rise? economist.com/culture/2024/0…

In this Babbage podcast, The Economist's editor, Zanny Minton Beddoes, and I discuss her recent interview with Sam Altman and Satya Nadella economist.com/podcasts/2024/…

A quick personal note: I’ll be changing roles at The Economist, to become the newspaper’s Senior Editor, AI initiatives. I’ll be coordinating our editorial AI projects, organising training and making sure that we stay ahead of the wave. It’ll be quite a ride, I’m sure…

ASML has created a network of suppliers and technology partners that may be the closest thing Europe has to Silicon Valley. And its business model ingeniously combines hardware with software and data economist.com/business/2024/…

Instead of trying to be first, Europe might have done better trying to be best—and come up with an AI act that has more rigour and less piling of exceptions on top of exceptions. economist.com/europe/2023/12…

If EU leaders really want to strengthen European tech, which they all profess to do, they should spend less time trying to regulate various digital markets and instead create a single truly European one. economist.com/business/2023/…