The
Washington Post has a big team of journalists covering the Rio
Olympics.
Also
covering the games for the paper: Robots.
The Post is
using homegrown software to automatically produce hundreds of
real-time news reports about the Olympics. Starting tomorrow morning,
those items will appear, without human intervention, on the Post’s
website, as well as in outside channels like its Twitter account.
The idea is
to use artificial intelligence to quickly create simple but useful
reports on scores, medal counts and other data-centric news bits —
so that the Post’s human journalists can work on more interesting
and complex work, says Jeremy Gilbert, who heads up new digital
projects for the paper.
"We’re
not trying to replace reporters," he said. "We’re trying
to free them up."
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