Friday, December 22, 2017

How soon will computers replace The Economist’s writers? - Artificial intelligence

Check the full article for some robot reporter observations about carbon nanotubes and other topics
"In the spirit of going fast and breaking things, The Economist has therefore trained an AI program on articles from the Science and Technology section, and invited it to come up with a piece of its own. The results, presented unedited below, show both the power and the limitations of pattern-recognition machine learning, which is more or less what AI boils down to. 
The computer has mimicked our style, and spotted topics we cover frequently. But although the sentences are grammatically correct, they lack meaning. To his relief, your correspondent should thus have a job to come back to after Christmas."
How soon will computers replace The Economist’s writers? - Artificial intelligence

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