Re:Journalism generated by machine is on the rise
by moorhosj on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @11:56AM
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==What does a quarterly profit of $3.3m for MSTR mean without benchmarking against its competitors, or taking the macroeconomic environment (interest rates, etc) into account?==
This doesn't seem that difficult to implement into a story. There are 125 earnings reports today [1], a retelling of the headline numbers with competitor analysis should fit the bill for reporting on most of them.
==Trained accountants and analysts can miss details when reading through those, so how is AI going to parse it any better?==
How could we expect a journalist to parse it better? Is that really the goal of news on financial reports?
This doesn't seem that difficult to implement into a story. There are 125 earnings reports today [1], a retelling of the headline numbers with competitor analysis should fit the bill for reporting on most of them.
==Trained accountants and analysts can miss details when reading through those, so how is AI going to parse it any better?==
How could we expect a journalist to parse it better? Is that really the goal of news on financial reports?
[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/calendar/earnings/