Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter?

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/can-an-algorithm-write-a-better-news-story-than-a-human-reporter/

by gus_massa • 14 years ago

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drallison• 14 years ago

There was a Stanford EE380 talk (http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/winter-schedule-20112012...) by Kriss Hammond of Narrative Science which is worth watching.

alapshah• 14 years ago

Previous discussion (same company, different article) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2984021

oogali• 14 years ago

Go GameChanger!

arikrak• 14 years ago

Its quite impressive, but will they actually be able to write "real" articles, or just convert stock or sports data into paragraphs? Since its possible that data is easier to look at in table form.

http://zappable.com/2012/04/algorithms-writing-articles/

nod• 14 years ago

The short answer is: No - but they're a heck of a lot cheaper.

almost• 14 years ago

When the headline is a question the answer is no. Works every time :)

nulluk• 14 years ago

Credit to them at least the "No" is within the second paragraph as apposed to the end of the article which is normally the case

cobrausn• 14 years ago

New Headline:

Is the answer always no when a headline is a question?

rsynnott• 14 years ago

Well, computers can already create accurate and convincing Daily Mail headlines: http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/

devs1010• 14 years ago

I'm curious if anyone knows of any open source projects that are similar to what they are doing? This is one area I have a lot of interest in but I haven't had all that much exposure to yet..

vladiim• 14 years ago

Algorithms are certainly good at finding patterns in large data-sets, couple this with some talented writing at a high level and you may have a news service of the future.

WalterSear• 14 years ago

Lately, I've read many tech and science news articles that could have been written better by a brick.

Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter?

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