RESHARED POST FROM ROB MALDA
RESHARED POST FROM BRUNO GONÇALVES
April 26, 2012THERE’S SOME DISCUSSION GOING AROUND ABOUT…
April 26, 2012“Hammond assures me I have nothing to worry about. This robonews tsunami, he insists, will not wash away the remaining human reporters who still collect paychecks. Instead the universe of newswriting will expand dramatically, as computers mine vast troves of data to produce ultracheap, totally readable accounts of events, trends, and developments that no journalist is currently covering.”
“That’s not to say that computer-generated stories will remain in the margins, limited to producing more and more Little League write-ups and formulaic earnings previews. Hammond was recently asked for his reaction to a prediction that a computer would win a Pulitzer Prize within 20 years. He disagreed. It would happen, he said, in five.”
h/t +Michael Fagan
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Algorithms that write the news
http://m.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/can-an-algorithm-write-a-better-news-story-than-a-human-reporter/all/1
Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter? | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Had Narrative Science — a company that trains computers to write news stories—created this piece, it probably would not mention that the company’s Chicago headquarters lie only a long baseball tos…
