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The Next Generation of News Writers Automated journalists poses a threat
The Next Generation of News Writers Beyond 2000 has an interesting feature on replacing journalists with robots. Ironically, the article is named People by Aparatuses to Replace. The article mentions how the new Author system can scan news, spot the relevant information, and write about it. The author of the article is quite skeptical, and understandably so: this may put him out of the job ;) Well maybe not, there's a significant difference between paraphrasing a press release, and providing a reflective opinion or subjective experience about it. One final thing that leaves the author perplexed is the ability of the system to identify 'interesting' stories. He thinks that illogically important details such as superstar's shopping habbits may not be understood by the system. Indeed not, but does the system really need to understand the content to be able to decide its interest? With a few training examples, a simple data-mining algorithm or neural network could easily extract interesting stories from a large set... | Alex J. Champandard 934 posts. Sunday 23 September, 18:53 Reply