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."
