Time to welcome our new computer overlords

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They beat our best at Jeopardy. Now they've set their sights on journalism, Joseph Stromberg writes on Smithsonian.com. "Software is being developed that can use raw data — such as Twitter feeds, company earnings reports and baseball box scores — to automatically produce news articles that seem as though they were written by a real live human," Stromberg says. If it works, software could "outcompete traditional journalism, since the cost is so much lower."

April 4, 2012

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