> “I hope we’ll see A.I. tools become a productivity tool in the practice of reporting and finding clues,” said Hilary Mason, the general manager for machine learning at Cloudera, a data management software company. “When you do data analysis, you can see anomalies and patterns using A.I. And a human journalist is the right person to understand and figure out.”

While there's been a lot of great stuff happening on the front of machine-generated news for a while now, data analysis is definitely another great target, with perhaps some more immediate gains, when it comes to AI / general automation in journalism.