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Re:Google is funding the creation of software that writes lo... by semperdark on Saturday July 08, 2017 @01:11PM (#14726182)
I've also noticed this on financial/stock news articles. I've seen a few of them use full 4-word names for corporations ("The Coca-Cola Company") dozens of times in one article, and multiple times per sentence.
Re:Google is funding the creation of software that writes lo... by mingabunga on Saturday July 08, 2017 @04:37PM (#14727087)
That's where companies like Arria https://www.arria.com/ doing natural language generation step in so you can't tell the difference if it's machine or human generated. Well that's the promise.
Re:Google is funding the creation of software that writes lo... by fjdlwlv on Saturday July 08, 2017 @01:39PM (#14726312)
Yes, finance and sports and weather and other metrics reporting is already highly automated.
Re:Google is funding the creation of software that writes lo... by lspress on Saturday July 08, 2017 @05:13PM (#14727220)
Automated Insights https://automatedinsights.com - writes all the routine corporate earnings stories for Associated Press so they can cover more companies and let journalists actually investigate and write more nuanced pieces. Some earnings reports start with the software writing and get augmented by human journalists.
Re:Google is funding the creation of software that writes lo... by dom0 on Saturday July 08, 2017 @01:38PM (#14726309)
These are indeed frequently generated automatically.