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God this stuff drives me insane. The "robot journalist" wrote a good article because the person who created it PROGRAMMED IT to write a good article! There we
by mcantor 16y ago
God this stuff drives me insane. The "robot journalist" wrote a good article because the person who created it PROGRAMMED IT to write a good article! There were no skills inherent to the software that eclipsed the requirement of having a creative human involved in the process. Articles like this don't mean anything.
- jawns 16y agoActually, articles like this do mean something -- at least to the journalists that the software is already beginning to make fear for their jobs. As a full-time journalist who has also written some "robot reporter" code -- see "I wrote this article with one mouse click," http://coding.pressbin.com/60/I-wrote-this-article-with-one-mouse-click http://coding.pressbin.com/60/I-wrote-this-article-with-one-... -- I know first-hand that even though it takes a creative human to code the software, once the software is written, it's "set it and forget it" ... which means you no longer need to pay a journalist to write the article, which means bye-bye journalism jobs. (Of course, it also means hello-hello journalist-programmer jobs.)
- sin7 16y agoHow long before we have robot programmers?
- ugh 16y agoSo what's wrong with the article? I don't really understand with what you are disagreeing.
- EwanToo 16y agoI'm not sure why it doesn't mean anything, surely the simple point of the software being written is to automate the task? Software like this can be used to amplify the productivity and creativity of 50 individuals, or indeed to replace 50 individuals each typing out their own report with 1 individual producing 1 computer program to produce the 50 reports.
- william42 16y agoDo you know what «fire and forget» means?