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I wonder if these automatically generated articles will ever become good enough to be worth reading. Currently, they seem to be just good enough to fool Google,
by TorKlingberg 15y ago
I wonder if these automatically generated articles will ever become good enough to be worth reading. Currently, they seem to be just good enough to fool Google, and convince people to click the link. Do any sports fans bookmark and come back to these sites?
No matter how good the algorithms get, they are still limited by their input, the statistics. If for example a player scores a very unusual goal, say a bicycle kick in soccer, then a real writer who actually saw the match would surely mention it. An algorithm could not if there is no field for unusual goal in the match statistics.
- RobbieStats 15y agoStill a long way to go, but the content is getting better. Here is a recent article from StatSheet: http://bosoxball.com/boston-red-sox/game-recap/red-sox-defeat-rangers-12-7 http://bosoxball.com/boston-red-sox/game-recap/red-sox-defea...
- cageface 15y agoI think I'd rather see more innovative ways of representing the history of a sporting event graphically instead of trying to replicate the relatively inane blow-by-blow that you currently get from real sports journalists. Maybe though if this kind of thing continues to improve the humans will have to start doing more serious analysis instead of fluff coverage.