Technology
Journalism is not a robot’s territory! Unfortunately for gritty scribes, the notion may be misplaced, and the proof is an AI-based bot, named Heliograf, which has already churned out nearly 850 short stories since its arrival at the Washington Post desk during the Rio Olympics.
The daily’s in-house program automatically generates content on wide-ranging topics from congressional races to high-school football games, writes Digital Trends.
The Associated Press, which has employed robots to cover corporate earnings, reveals that bots not only shoulder the burden of journalists, sparing more time for high-value work, but also bring down error rate in copy, notes Digiday.
