This has long been a staple of my collection of QTWTAIN Questions To Which The Answer Is No. Originally the question took the form of headlines such as, Will robots replace human journalists? A few years ago, the questions became more insistent as some news organisations experimented with automating sports results or market reporting.<\/p>\n
The answer was still always No. Most journalism is a form of conversation. While it is possible to imagine weather reporting or traffic updates being handled by software, writing news stories or comment articles is a form of Turing test that computers are still a long way from passing.<\/p>\n
Even so, artificial intelligence is capable of some amazing things. One of the big advances in technology recently has been in voice recognition software. Many journalists, including me, now use a programme called Otter.ai (the ai stands for artificial intelligence), which converts audio recordings into text.<\/p>\n
Sharing the full story, not just the headlines<\/p>\n
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Editor's Letter: Will artificial intelligence put journalists out of work? - The Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This has long been a staple of my collection of QTWTAIN Questions To Which The Answer Is No. Originally the question took the form of headlines such as, Will robots replace human journalists? Continue reading