We still do not have robots to write accurate news and easy to read, but funding from Google could change the situation.
Google offers funding for a rather interesting project based on artificial intelligence and who would write news. Thus, The Press Association, a UK news agency, has received about $ 807,000 in the third round of funding of the Digital News Initiative project, created by Google.
The Press Association's project is known as RADAR, or Reporters and Data and Robots, a news site where people collaborate with artificial intelligence to create a lot of interesting stories every day.
RADAR appears on the Google Project site as a major project and aims to create a ready-made news stream for other smaller profile sites.
RADAR will use a combination of editorial expertise and automation, applied to a large flow of free data. Thus, the system will provide a significant improvement of the digital news ecosystem. This, in turn, should stimulate the local media industry, especially at a time when budgets are at a limit, but where the public's interest in news is higher than ever.
Naturally, this does not mean that journalists will be out of work, and that's what Pete Clifton publishes from Press Association. He said in an interview with the BBC that artificial intelligence would not make journalists irrelevant. According to him, the RADAR system will offer the possibility of covering a huge volume of news that would otherwise be overlooked, writes thenextweb.com.