The rise of the robot reporter

The rise of the robot reporter
Artificial intelligence reads stock market announcements and writes news stories. (Image: George Morina/Pexels)
Daniel Dunkley
Artificial intelligence tools that can read stock market announcements and write news stories. Synthetic voices that mimic your favourite newsreader and read out articles. Smart technology to dissect huge data files and visualise the findings. This isn't the stuff of science fiction – it's just some of the technology available to journalists today.Like most industries, news journalism is in the middle of an artificial intelligence-driven transformation. Increasingly sophisticated software created by tech giants such as Micros...

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