China introduced robots capable of writing newspapers

Journalists in China are at risk of unemployment in the future, when technology firm Tencent recently introduced robots capable of writing newspapers and complete articles because this robot is posted to show quality. inferior to the article of a real person.

China launches Dreamwriter robot that can write newspapers

Artificial intelligence and robots are changing people's work, making life easier and more convenient, however, the robot team can also occupy people's work, even the work requires thinking ability. Recently, technology firm Tencent (China) has published an article that the company is written entirely by the robot developed by genuine.

The 916-word article was posted on the QQ.com website owned by Tencent, with current financial issues in China. In the article, there are many quotes from analysts and economists about China's economic prospects in the current downturn.

Tencent said the article was written in Chinese and only took a minute to Dreamwriter , the robot designed and developed by Tencent, to complete this article.

Robots are replacing people doing many things, including those that require thinking.In the picture, he is observing a rubik robot at an international technology exhibition in Guangdong province.

Currently Tencent is still keeping the Dreamwriter project secret and has not disclosed any specific information, but this robot has quickly attracted the attention of the media in China and many people question whether the house Future newspapers will be unemployed with the birth of Dreamwriter.

• Robots can also write newspapers

'It is a complete and readable article. It's hard to say that the article is not human-made, 'said Li Wei, a reporter living in Shenzhen City. 'I have heard about reporter robots a while ago, but think they will only appear in the US or Europe. I'm still not ready to compete with them. '

In fact, there used to be a lot of journaling software in the past, which helped create complete articles from the data entered. For example, Narrative Science, a Chicago-based company, used software with algorithms designed to automatically collect data from the Internet, quotes . to join together into a complete article. This enabled Narrative Science to sell its articles to various news agencies, including major news agencies.

In an interview with Wired magazine a few years ago, Narrative Science co-founder Kris Hammond believes 90% of US news in 2027 will be produced by robots. Hammond even believes that it will only take about five years (from the time of the interview a few years ago), the writings of robots also receive the prestigious Pulitzer press award.

Going back to the story of the journalist robot in China, while journalists in this country are worried about competing with robots in their work in the future, Tencent has reassured them that robots write Its newspaper will not aim to 'rob' journalists' jobs, but will instead help journalists get more time and energy to 'think seriously about a bigger picture' , from that exploits more important topics and content.