Shan Wang discusses a new Tow Center report on the strengths and weaknesses of automated journalism — computer programs that write stories for outlets such as the Associated Press: "It won’t work in domains where no structured data is available or the data available is fuzzy, and it can’t provide the why of a story, only the what. But its potential in increasing speed, scale, and accuracy is great — algorithms 'do not get tired or distracted.'"
January 12, 2016
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