Robot Writers in use at The Associated Press
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2015/01/robot-writers-help-the-associated-press-to-improve-earnings/Now here is a novel method to make sure that robots are able to help us out in our lives, making it better through the use of automation technology in order to write its earnings reports. In fact, The Associated Press (AP) claims to have generated 3,000 stories each quarter, which is ten times its previous output. This particular nugget of information hails from Automated Insights, which is the company behind the automation. Apart from that, it is said that these robot-generated stories also carried a whole lot less errors in comparison to the ones written by actual journalists.
The Associated Press started to publish earnings reports with the help of automation technology in July for various companies that include, but are not limited to, Hasbro Inc., Honeywell International Inc. and GE. Each of those stories do come with the addendum which reads, This story was generated automatically by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Full GE report: http://www.zacks.com/ap/GE.
In such stories, there are descriptions of individual businesses that contain forward-looking guidance provided by the companies. It does seem as though the news cooperatives customers have been pleased as punch to receive more stories, and such automation has allowed reporters to have more time on their hands to handle the tougher assignments. Not only that, there has been no job cuts resulting from the automated earnings reports. Image courtesy of All Len All.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)And send them to work every morning while we stay home and veg or something. Will we be paid by the robots time and efficiency? I was being funny but the more I think about it, the more I think that maybe reality.
bvf
(6,604 posts)the film "Surrogates" to me.
Haven't seen it yet, but it sounds like the plot involves exactly what you're envisioning here.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)in the last year. They are all the same and pass from site to site.
I guess we can expect more in the future. And, even ourt news stories on some websites can seem to be Robotic Rehases of Reuters, AP and the like. A small line of commentary...but, it's the same news story going from site to site.
We will become "Robotic Consumers of Robotic News" soon. Faux News was just the beginning. (I know...not the same..but close enough) HA!
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)I'm sorry Dave, my contract won't allow me to do that.