{"id":10455,"date":"2014-03-25T13:59:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T20:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10455"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:15:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:15:24","slug":"more-news-is-being-written-by-robots-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/more-news-is-being-written-by-robots-than-you-think","title":{"rendered":"More News Is Being Written By Robots Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Posts by Jason Dorrier\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/jdorrier\/\" rel=\"author\">Jason Dorrier<\/a> \u2014 Jason Dorrier<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">It\u2019s easy to praise robots and automation when it isn\u2019t your ass on the line. I\u2019ve done it lots. But I may have to eat my own Cheerios soon enough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Software is writing news stories with increasing frequency. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-26614051\">recent example<\/a>, an LA Times writer-bot wrote and posted a snippet about an earthquake three minutes after the event. The LA Times claims they were first to publish anything on the quake, and outside the USGS, they probably were.<\/p>\n<p>The LA Times example isn\u2019t special because it\u2019s the first algorithm to write a story on a major news site. With the help of Chicago startup and robot writing firm, Narrative Science, algorithms have basically been passing the Turing test online for the last few years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/03\/25\/more-news-is-being-written-by-robots-than-you-think\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Dorrier \u2014 Jason Dorrier It\u2019s easy to praise robots and automation when it isn\u2019t your ass on the line. I\u2019ve done it lots. But I may have to eat my own Cheerios soon enough. Software is writing news stories with increasing frequency. In a recent example, an LA Times writer-bot wrote and posted a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47162,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455\/revisions\/47162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}