At the moment The Atlantic is launching Atlantic Labs, a analysis and improvement website from the product and expertise staff. The product staff will use this area to incubate concepts, many utilizing AI, to grasp how The Atlantic can profit from rising applied sciences. It is a vacation spot for works in progress and prototypes, and to check––and be taught from––new applied sciences.
There are three tasks on the positioning at launch: Atlantic Companion, a chatbot with entry to The Atlantic’s 167-year archive, that delivers an inventory of related articles when given a immediate; Atlantic Take, a Chrome extension designed to floor associated Atlantic tales wherever you’re shopping on the web; and Atlantic Explorer, a guided journey by means of thematic articles. With time and testing, these tasks could assist the product staff enhance current options or develop new instruments to profit our workers and readers. (Atlantic Labs is unbiased from our journalism, and doesn’t contain our editorial staff; moreover, whereas these tasks use gen-AI, AI will not be getting used to create The Atlantic’s journalism.)
In working with rising applied sciences, issues will sometimes glitch or break––and, within the course of, educate us one thing new. Labs was developed as a stand-alone website in order that it may be an experimental sandbox––a spot to incubate concepts with out straight affecting the locations the place folks usually learn and take heed to The Atlantic.
Atlantic Labs is open to anybody, with registration required. Press with questions could attain out to Anna Bross, SVP of communications for The Atlantic, at press@theatlantic.com.
