Scribes everywhere, look alive: Google is now funding a project which will use AI to write automated news stories, The Press Association, a UK news agency, received about $807,000 from the third round of Google’s Digital News Initiative funding. Their project?…
Scribes everywhere, look alive: Google is now funding a project which will use AI to write automated news stories,
The Press Association, a UK news agency, received about $807,000 from the third round of Google’s Digital News Initiative funding. Their project? Reporters and Data and Robots, or RADAR, an AI/human collaborative news site which will produce “a daily diet of compelling stories.”
RADAR is listed on the DNI site as a “large” project, with a goal towards providing a steady stream of ready-made content for smaller news sites:
My journalist brothers and sisters shouldn’ t worry, though, according to Press Association editor Pete Clifton. He reassured the BBC the AI will not make human journalists obsolete:
Other recipients of DNI funding are Al Jazeera’s AJ Labs app, the virtual newsroom WikiTribune, and Dennis Publishing’s digital advertising platform Project Arete.
Google funds automated news project on BBC
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