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Packages by category. More News Is Being Written By Robots Than You Think. It’s easy to praise robots and automation when it isn’t your ass on the line. I’ve done it lots. But I may have to eat my own Cheerios soon enough. Software is writing news stories with increasing frequency. In a recent example, an LA Times writer-bot wrote and posted a snippet about an earthquake three minutes after the event.

The LA Times claims they were first to publish anything on the quake, and outside the USGS, they probably were. The LA Times example isn’t special because it’s the first algorithm to write a story on a major news site. With the help of Chicago startup and robot writing firm, Narrative Science, algorithms have basically been passing the Turing test online for the last few years. This is possible because some kinds of reporting are formulaic.

Indeed, Kristian Hammond, cofounder and CTO of Narrative Science, thinks some 90% of the news could be written by computers by 2030. I imagine the computer populating a Venn diagram. For example, the LA earthquake hit at 6:25am. Tiny Download Full And Free Links. CrackzPlanet4.55 - Alyuda Forecaster XL v2.3. Trading Software. The Best Private Server Bot. The Best Private Server Bot.