Microsoft lays off journalists to replace them with AI

Posted by saravana85 on Sunday May 31, 2020 @01:56AM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/30/21275524/microsoft-news-msn-layoffs-artificial-intelligence-ai-replacements

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Re:Microsoft lays off journalists to replace them with AI by osobo on Sunday May 31, 2020 @11:58AM (#23370356)

I just see a bunch of portal editors seeing fired. A guy picking through blurbs to post on a channel is not a journalist. Basically MS starts doing what everybody else has been doing all along: curation by algorithm.

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Re:Microsoft lays off journalists to replace them with AI by Xoltus on Sunday May 31, 2020 @07:48AM (#23368936)

Maybe Microsoft hires Tay[1] as one of their new AI journalists.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)

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Re:Microsoft lays off journalists to replace them with AI by intended on Sunday May 31, 2020 @07:23AM (#23368814)

I bet that This will come under the “what could possibly go wrong.” In a few years time.

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