Last week Facebook had what it thought was a sure-fire solution to the accusations that the human editors of the trending news section were introducing an editorial slant which was biased...Continue reading
Category: Bot
How to Feed and Raise a Wikipedia Robo-Editor
Wikipedia is to put artificial intelligence to the enormous task of keeping the free, editable online encyclopedia up-to-date, spam-free and legal. The Objective Revision Evaluation Service uses text-processing AI algorithms...Continue reading
Bots Learn How to Write Clickbait Headlines That Will Shock You!
Everyone from startups like Narrative Science to news orgs like the LATimes and the AP are using algorithms to automatically generate news articles, and pretty soon they’ll be able to...Continue reading
IBM Watson Tone Analyzer Could be the First Step Towards a Developmental Editor Bot
Writers have all sorts of automated tools at their disposal, including spellcheck, grammar check, word macros, Draftback, and (one day, hopefully) bots, and IBM wants to add another tool to...Continue reading
NPR Pits Robot Reporter Against Journalist, When They Should Have Had Them Work Together
NPR’s Planet Money published a story today on the rise of automatically generated news stories, but unfortunately they didn’t push beyond the “oh, shiny tech” level of fluff. You can...Continue reading
SCIpher Lets You Hide Secret Messages in Fake Conference Proceedings
Secret messages hidden in personal ads are an old trope in spy and thriller stories, and you can find all sorts of online tools to create your own. And now thanks SCIpher,...Continue reading
Narrative Science raises $10 million, Fires its robot reporters
I’m breaking out the champagne tonight; that dystopian future where I get replaced by an algorithm has drawn one step further away. Narrative Science announced on Friday that they had raised...Continue reading
The AP is the Latest to Join the Robot Reporter Brigade
Twenty years ago the idea that robots would one day write the news we read everyday fell in the domain of SF writers and madmen, but today it is a...Continue reading