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Professor: 90% of News Stories to be Written by Computers by 2030 | |
2014-03-26 | |
![]() Since it's infowars, we'd normally suggest the usual grain of salt, but since we're pioneering the concept... Hammond, co-founded of Narrative Science, helped develop a program with news hound and programmer Ken Schwencke that relies on a fusion of statistics and journalistic cliches to write simple news stories. Analysts say the forthcoming election has been a factor in the rising sectarian violence in Iraq in recent months, with Mr Maliki and other Shia political leaders determined to be seen to be taking a hard line against militancy rather than reach out to the Sunni Arab minority. More than [fill in the blank] people have been killed in violent attacks across the country so far this month, according to [news agency], including [number] on [weekday]. This is how the L.A. Times was able to publish an article about last week's earthquake just 3 minutes after it happened, because the whole story was artificially generated by Schwencke's computer algorithm. Saleh was removed from power in a year-long uprising that started in 2011 and ended after he signed a power transfer deal that gave him immunity from prosecution in return for leaving power in 2012. While the L.A. Times is open about its use of the program, many other mainstream news websites are using "robo-news hounds" completely anonymously without a disclaimer. The government is optimistic that the banned group would extend the ceasefire. According to Singularity Hub's Jason Dorrier, Professor Hammond, "thinks some 90% of the news could be written by computers by 2030." And don't think this will just be restricted to sports results or earthquakes. Hammond also believes that "a computer could write stories worthy of a Pulitzer Prize by 2017." ![]() a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... Meanwhile, This speaks to the increasingly redundant role of mainstream news news hounds. Journalists working for the corporate press have abandoned their role as adversarial checks against the state to such a degree that they are now being replaced by computers.
Mainstream news hounds have become so adept at merely regurgitating official narratives and echoing government talking points unchallenged that they are now being replaced by robots -- and nobody is even noticing. | |
Posted by:Fred |
#9 And read, too. Which is just as well. |
Posted by: European Conservative 2014-03-26 19:26 |
#8 AH and Richard, that indeed is a gem of a story. The poem's damned good too. |
Posted by: Steve White 2014-03-26 18:44 |
#7 "There Will Come Soft Rains" Forgot about that one, AH. |
Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-03-26 16:35 |
#6 computer: 90% of professors will have cyber subsidies |
Posted by: lord garth 2014-03-26 13:54 |
#5 And somebody's got to notice the earthquake to write it up. Perhaps the seismometers will be send their reports directly to computers to issue automated reports. Lots of amateur weather stations do that already. Ray Bradbury once wrote a short story about a robotically maintained house that continued to clean itself, with the shadows of its former residents burned into the house's siding by a nuclear blast. |
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-03-26 13:03 |
#4 What happens if the computer glitches and accidentally posts the real unemployment statistics? |
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-03-26 12:36 |
#3 Computer-generated stories are still subject to GIGO rules. And somebody's got to notice the earthquake to write it up. |
Posted by: Fred 2014-03-26 12:18 |
#2 I just programmed my iPad to write story every 5 business days titled "Obama delays Obamacare" |
Posted by: Airandee 2014-03-26 12:11 |
#1 The Pennsylvania avenue will email news to the media. Bye bye labor costs. Obama phone. Obama computer. No need for printed paper. Save a few trees. All mail sent to your computer. No Postal service as it is now. Packages sent to local stores for pick up. Mass transit authorized route planned and approved for pickup or delivery. |
Posted by: Dale 2014-03-26 11:41 |