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Re:More News Is Being Written By Robots by pantalaimon on Friday March 28, 2014 @06:33AM (#7486305)
- In a recent example, an LA Times writer-bot wrote and posted a snippet about an earthquake three minutes after the event.

- The LA Times claims they were first to publish anything on the quake, and outside the USGS, they probably were.

- The LA Times example isn’t special because it’s the first algorithm to write a story on a major news site.

- Indeed, Kristian Hammond, cofounder and CTO of Narrative Science, thinks some 90% of the news could be written by computers by 2030.

- The LA Times earthquake story, written by an algorithm created by one of their staff, included a disclaimer.

This TL;DR was written by a bot.

http://www.textteaser.com/s/Y4TWuU

Re:More News Is Being Written By Robots by Pitarou on Friday March 28, 2014 @06:47AM (#7486354)
And the bot doesn't get the details wrong!

I mistakenly wrote "Bill Hammond" instead of "Kristian Hammond" in my TL;DR. (Sorry Kristian.)

Re:More News Is Being Written By Robots by higherpurpose on Friday March 28, 2014 @08:02AM (#7486603)
But it could still have bias.
Re:More News Is Being Written By Robots by sosborn on Friday March 28, 2014 @11:51AM (#7487961)
Everything is subject to bias.
Re:More News Is Being Written By Robots by shubb on Friday March 28, 2014 @09:14AM (#7486973)