Tag: Automated writing
An ethical checklist for robot journalism
by Tom Kent Feb 24, 2015 Updated October 2019 It’s routine now for news organizations to use artificial intelligence…
The Next Word | THE NEW YORKER
‘…it’s making billions of lightning-fast probability calculations about word patterns from a year’s worth of e-mails sent from Gmail.com.’ The…
Jacob Berkowitz: Hey Siri, write me a book: Turing’s Imitation Game is AI’s highest form of flattery – and it’s writing its own story | THE GLOBE AND MAIL
‘As young parents, we’re caught off-guard when suddenly we’re arguing with an articulate, obdurate child. We desperately want our children,…
The Economist’s essay contest featured an AI submission. Here’s what the judges thought. | VOX
‘…the AI did not emerge victorious — but even this mediocre performance is a stunning change from what AI was…
Automation, bots and algorithms in newsmaking. Impact and quality of artificial journalism | Miguel Túñez-López et al
The authors provide a thorough account of the progression ‘from artisan journalism to artificial journalism.‘ They compare writing by algorithms…
JPMorgan Chase picks AI over humans to write ads | SF GATE
‘…the largest U.S. bank says Persado’s “artificial intelligence message machine” wrote ads that generated two to five times the response…
Chinese newspaper has robot writer of science news | XINHUA
‘According to investors, more international journals, as well as conference and patent information, will be covered by the automated systems…
Robo-reporter writes front-page news | FINANCIAL TIMES
Calling it ‘the UK’s most prolific reporter’, the FINANCIAL TIMES describes how AI-powered RADAR delivers human interest and local headline…
Teaching machines to write better adverts than humans | BBC
Algorithms are becoming better than humans at writing ad slogans. This BBC NEWS report gives an example of ‘have a…
Bad news, journalists: Robots are writing really good headlines now | TNW
‘Primer, an AI company, recently built a tool capable of writing headlines that look like those a human would produce.‘…
A poetry-writing AI has just been unveiled. It’s … pretty good. | VOX
VOX tests the latest version of GPT-2, the controversial text-generating algorithm, and now you can too. A Toronto machine language…
Artificial Intelligence Can Now Write Amazing Content — What Does That Mean For Humans? | FORBES
FORBES surveys ways AI tools are being used in newsrooms. The piece embeds several links to examples or explainers. ‘If…
Hannah Jane Parkinson: AI can write just like me. Brace for the robot apocalypse | THE GUARDIAN
‘Seeing GPT2 “write” one of “my” articles was a stomach-dropping moment: a) it turns out I am not the unique…
A new autoscribe and a new byline
THE GUARDIAN AUSTRALIA has published its first news story prepared by an automated system. The paper calls the AI-enabled tool…
Forbes is building more AI tools for its reporters | DIGIDAY UK
‘Forbes is investing in tools to make its newsroom more bionic.’ A new CMS called Bertie is making suggestions for…
RISE OF THE MACHINE: Journalists under threat as AI robot writes article in ONE SECOND | EXPRESS
‘Another industry is at risk of being replaced by robot workers after an artificially intelligent robot wrote an entire article…
Could a robot write a novel? | BBC
AI tools are helping writers in more ways, for example correcting or suggesting words, and by themselves are generating longer…
Robots Are Invading the News Business, and It’s Great for Journalists NEW YORK MAGAZINE | July 2014
‘The stories that today’s robots can write are, frankly, the kinds of stories that humans hate writing anyway.’ Robots Are…
A leap forward in quarterly earnings stories | ASSOCIATED PRESS
‘The Associated Press announced in an advisory to customers today that the majority of U.S. corporate earnings stories for our…