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If the” new frontier of journalism “is software that puts preloaded data in predetermined patterns are quiet for at least another 500 years , we journalists. And no, not because the goals of ‘ artificial intelligence are not sensational – just think of what they’re up to the IBM supercomputer, Watson all in very different fields, from health to the city of the future that someone You do not want to call smart – but it is one thing to get excited about certain developments, another exchange a compiler for the murderess of a profession that thrives on blood, sensitivity and feelings as well as facts and figures.
Stocks easy they are in fact wasting in these hours Wordsmith , a program still in beta (we have applied for registration, it will take a while ‘but I’ll let you know) developed by the US Automated Insights. For how we are telling, the platform generate articles and reviews customizable and then candiderebbe as a relentless killer of journalism, at least as we know it.
Only to discover, simply clicking on the site, which of course – and could only be so – this system needs clear data starting and more like those that produce software graphics and infographics automatically that a miraculous invention of some programmer. Or perhaps the beloved Doc, we’re on the theme Back to the Future (probably this is a step that the Thermomix reporters could not enter).
The second step need to produce the elusive item – according to the information on the site – still provides a human intervention (in part, in hindsight, even the first). So contradicts full the thesis of the premature extinction of journalism confirming that of those who, for years, has been fighting instead to identify the dynamics that are profoundly changing. That intermediate step is necessary for customize – fundamentally alter linguistic models established – that content produced. A job that makes a journalist based in the simple act of writing and the composition of a piece of text to a video service or another kind of contribution.
The only difference, of course useful for some types of publications and services, is obviously in the bulk . By automating the process, “ Wordsmith allows you to communicate like a human being but on a scale that no human being can touch “. But this, if possible, is further confirmation that Wordsmith will perhaps be useful for the popular real-time updates on the stock exchange or on sports or plug the holes at night, when few newspapers can afford to work a drawing.
Finally, there is a key element of all neglected and hiding precisely in (false) dictatorship data . Numerical information, accounting, quantitative and percent are just one of the many ingredients of the great world of journalistic content . It is no coincidence that the same Automated Insights proposes its product – among other things, there are already similar to that have not generated the expected minimally, catastrophic outcomes of those who seem to want to delegate even the information to a handful of algorithms – first the so-called data-driven market , from finance to sports up to real course for passing a portion of the world of the media.
‘impression, in short, is that if ever such solutions fail to produce anything more than a dispatch (yes, you called so …) Agency written straight without providing any human intervention – too easy cry the death of journalism and explain that well, ‘yes, indeed a customization would still – there will be more helpful than anything else.
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