That Article You Just Read? A Robot Journalist May Have Written It
Last week, numerous news outlets—BostInno included—covered the quarterly earnings reports from major tech companies. But doing the stories requires both accuracy and speed, a challenging combination. Which is why certain news organizations are now bringing in the robots. Mere minutes after Apple released its record-breaking quarterly earnings report, the Associated Press had already published a story on the results. And while it may read a bit dry, there’s little indication in the body of the article that it wasn’t written by a human being. That is, aside from the lack of a byline, and one line at the very end of the piece: “This story was generated by Automated Insights using data from Zacks Investment Research.”