according to New York Times, news Agency Bloomberg about a third of the content generated using automated technology. The system helps Cyborg “colleagues” with the analysis of financial statements and can give instant news, based on facts and figures. Unlike business reporters the system does this without complaint. The publication notes that AI helps Bloomberg to fight with their competitors from Reuters.
Robots have been used successfully, and for doing sports broadcasts. The Associated Press has taught AI “comment” baseball games. Such “journalists” to help their colleagues as expeditiously as possible to convey information to readers who can’t watch the match right now. And in The Washington Post back in 2016 is working the robot, covering the Olympics and the U.S. presidential election.
In the Australian version of The Guardian from 2019 use robots to write articles. AI analyzes large amounts of data and on their basis creates text templates. The Chinese Xinhua news Agency robots-leading work in live by night.
of Course, there are also negative examples of the use of journalists-robots. Not having worked for ten days AI from Microsoft hit in a major scandal. The algorithm confused the participants popular British pop group of mixed race, placing incorrect pictures on the main page. To answer for such actions “machines” had already people.
In may this year Facebook was forced to disable his chat-bot due to the fact that he began to insult users. The fact that the training material engineers used comments popular English-speaking forum to Reddit. And in 2016 in the same Microsoft decided to teach the bot to lead Twitter. And if he began with the phrase: “people are cool”, then just a day he learned swear words and began to write “I hate you all”. Of course, in the company of such “bloggers” quickly turned off.
Technology has not yet reached a level to replace real journalists. Robots can be taught a specific task – to write financial reports, to do rewriting news (rewrite from other sources), to sports broadcasts on the Internet, to highlight major events on a pre-written algorithms or to read the text as it occurs in China, but to produce a quality analyst this “journalist” can’t. At least not yet. At least the next three decades, the computer analyst should not wait, unanimous experts.
