Woodward, Bernstein ... and Optimus Prime?
By
Peter Kafka Aug 5, 2016
The Washington Post has a big team of journalists covering the Rio Olympics.
Also covering the games for the paper: Robots.
The Post is using homegrown software to automatically
produce hundreds of real-time news reports about the Olympics. Starting
tomorrow morning, those items will appear, without human intervention,
on the Post’s website, as well as in outside channels like its Twitter
account.
The idea is to use artificial intelligence to quickly
create simple but useful reports on scores, medal counts and other
data-centric news bits — so that the Post’s human journalists can work
on more interesting and complex work, says Jeremy Gilbert, who heads up
new digital projects for the paper.
"We’re not trying to replace reporters," he said. "We’re trying to free them up."
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