The Washington Post joins the growing list of sources employing artificial intelligence to create content. The Post is setting these bots to covering the Rio Olympics.
The Washington Post, one of the US’s largest newspapers is going to use artifical intelligence to write about the Olympics in Rio, which begin tomorrow.
The Post is using software of its own creation, Heliograph, to create content covering basic aspects of the games. The paper’s site and Twitter (among other outlets) will start posting stories as early as tomorrow morning. The stories will be posted without a word written from a breath drawing human.
http://futurism.com/the-washington-post-is-using-ai-to-write-stories-during-the-rio-olympics/