[net-gold] COMPUTER : WRITING AND WRITERS : TECHNOLOGY : SOFTWARE: In Case You Wondered, a Real Human Wrote This Column
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- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:43:20 -0400 (EDT)
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COMPUTER :
WRITING AND WRITERS :
TECHNOLOGY :
SOFTWARE:
In Case You Wondered, a Real Human Wrote This Column
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In Case You Wondered, a Real Human Wrote This Column
By STEVE LOHR
Published: September 10, 2011
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/business/
computer-generated-articles-are-gaining-traction.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3kgyga9
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WISCONSIN appears to be in the drivers seat en route to a win, as it leads
51-10 after the third quarter. Wisconsin added to its lead when Russell
Wilson found Jacob Pedersen for an eight-yard touchdown to make the score
44-3 ... .
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Those words began a news brief written within 60 seconds of the end of the
third quarter of the Wisconsin-U.N.L.V. football game earlier this month.
They may not seem like much but they were written by a computer.
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The clever code is the handiwork of Narrative Science, a start-up in
Evanston, Ill., that offers proof of the progress of artificial
intelligence the ability of computers to mimic human reasoning.
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The companys software takes data, like that from sports statistics,
company financial reports and housing starts and sales, and turns it into
articles. For years, programmers have experimented with software that
wrote such articles, typically for sports events, but these efforts had a
formulaic, fill-in-the-blank style. They read as if a machine wrote them.
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But Narrative Science is based on more than a decade of research, led by
two of the companys founders, Kris Hammond and Larry Birnbaum,
co-directors of the Intelligent Information Laboratory at Northwestern
University, which holds a stake in the company. And the articles produced
by Narrative Science are different.
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I thought it was magic, says Roger Lee, a general partner of Battery
Ventures, which led a $6 million investment in the company earlier this
year. Its as if a human wrote it.
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Experts in artificial intelligence and language are also impressed, if
less enthralled. Oren Etzioni, a computer scientist at the University of
Washington, says, The quality of the narrative produced was quite good, as
if written by a human, if not an accomplished wordsmith. Narrative
Science, Mr. Etzioni says, points to a larger trend in computing of the
increasing sophistication in automatic language understanding and, now,
language generation.
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The innovative work at Narrative Science raises the broader issue of
whether such applications of artificial intelligence will mainly assist
human workers or replace them. Technology is already undermining the
economics of traditional journalism. Online advertising, while on the
rise, has not offset the decline in print advertising. But will robot
journalists replace flesh-and-blood journalists in newsrooms?
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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