Robot reporters in the future?

In today's digital age, the press will also automate and GUARBOT robots are "trying" to become a true journalist?

The Guardian newspaper of England said that the review of emails, the selection of expensive information for readers is really a boring job, wasting human resources, especially if the article is merely an event. and numbers. Should this be transferred to a computer for reporters to invest more in investigative and analytical articles?

Guardia's Will Franklin developer is currently working on the right "standard" GUARBOT robot . He uses Guardian's Content API system to filter out groups of words, support verbs and common sentence patterns used in topics of the same topic, while still marking phrases that make up each article's own appeal. such as the name of the person or place involved. Then based on how SCIgen works - a well-known tool for creating fake science articles, he arranges filtered phrases / words into a paragraph that uses grammar for every context and contains the set. rule to leave a blank of a particular phrase.

Future robots will work as a true reporter - (Photo: Guardian)

However, GUARBOT's problem is that it is impossible to understand exactly what to fill in the blank and accordingly it can only create a grammatically correct but unconvincing article. If GUARBOT determines the context to use the right word, at least this will be a step in the right direction that Will Franklin wants.

Many media organizations are looking for developers to devise smart ways, combining computer algorithms to produce daily news.

Web site Forbes.com has been using Narrative Science's artificial intelligence platform to produce news automatically from live data sources and aggregated content from previous articles. The key to realizing this is that business news content tends to follow a certain formula and is heavy on data, time, stock or company name.

Meanwhile, the Los Angles Times newspaper uses robots to bring earthquake information through an algorithm to collect magnitude, time, and earthquake locations from the US Geological Survey (US Geological website). Survey).

The question is whether the robot will be able to write articles with a separate perspective or analysis. In a study in early 2014, Swedish scientist Christer Clerwall found that readers could not recognize the differences between "writing" and human-writing sports articles. The article of the robot is more appreciated for the quality of information description. It is difficult to draw any conclusions from a disordered, hastily coded and lacking research. Therefore, perhaps we still need journalists and firmly believe that journalism is not natural. But surely the robot journalist will be an interesting idea.