Posted on 02/08/2019 10:20:47 PM PST by Windflier
As journalists face increased layoffs despite the growing appetite for up-to-the-minute, timely news, a new trend has quietly been disrupting the news industry.
Enter the automated reporter.
News organizations are increasingly turning toward artificial intelligence (AI) for production, using a variety of new automated systems to pump out content with minimal need for direct human input.
According to a report by The New York Times, Bloomberg News relies on a system called Cyborg to produce about a third of its articles.
Most of Cyborg’s output takes the form of company earnings reports that are rife with percentages, charts, and other financial data that can be crunched down into a news story quickly and accurately.
But Bloomberg isn’t alone. Increasingly, major news agency like Reuters and Associated Press, along with a number of newspapers such as Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, are using algorithms to crunch out news on everything from local minor league sports games to earthquakes.
Even Patch, which publishes local news nationwide, relies on AI to draft anywhere between 5 to ten percent of its stories for the 800 communities that it serves.
Last year, the Washington Post took first place in the category of “Excellence in Use of Bots” at the Global BIGGIES Awards for its use of Heliograf, a robot reporter that was used in the Post’s coverage of the 2016 Olympic Summer Games and that year’s election. The judges hailed Heliograf’s work for the Post, noting that its “set of examples and explanations are eloquently written and backed. The results also seem quite promising. Very impressive.”
Heck with the writing robots, I want something with firepower, like Gort.
...and no one notices nor cares! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!
Is it just journalists or could it also be Hollywood script writers too?
Pretty simple algorithm: topical story of the day + blame Trump for it - ready to publish.
Aha! That could explain the postings of a few Freepers I know (names withheld). :-)
You got it!
There's one frequent poster here who is so repetitive, I could probably write one of his broken record responses in my sleep.
Good point.
WAPOO and AP are written by bots? Well that explains a lot.
The “Learn to Code” meme becomes especially ironic?
If illegal aliens were taking journalists jobs they’d probably...do nothing, just slink away.
System.out.println(”Orange Man Bad!”);
Or scary, if you're following the rapid development of artificial intelligence and robotics.
They'd simply be obeying the tenets of their left-liberal religion.
They believe that all first world people are unworthy oppressors of the world's unfortunates, and that they deserve to be replaced by them.
Available on Amazon Prime
I had to look twice at that image to spot the connection to the topic at hand.
Excellent job at a fake thread hijack.
The “Learn to Code” meme becomes especially ironic?
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Journalists learns to code.
Codes journalist algo.
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