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Re:AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Bask... by aristus on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @12:14PM (#1914868)
I saw that done back in 1999 with animated avatars, text-to-speech, market news, stock updates, etc. I can't find the details offhand but I believe it was a Bloomberg thing.
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Re:AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Bask... by petercooper on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @05:57PM (#1916097)
Might not be what you were thinking but Ananova was doing stuff like that back then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananova
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Re:AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Bask... by aristus on Friday November 19, 2010 @11:59AM (#1921900)
Ah, I think that was it. They were vague about how the copy was produced, so it might have been a bunch of interns.
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