Machine Learning, The New Helping Hand For Journalists

Artificial Intelligence might be the tech that will destroy the human race or the one that will make almost everything easier and more comfortable for us humans, both at work and at home. Or even both.. For now though machine learning proved its "intelligence" once again in helping journalists compiling "tons of data" into a news report.

Quartz AI Studio is the company that managed to use AI and its reporters, without destroying anything, for creating their report on Lyft's IPO. Where did the work of reporters end and the hands of AI get into the creating the news might be a good question to ask regarding the topic.

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Well, according to futurism.com the reporter's algorithm was trained "to examine the section of ride-hailing app Lyft’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) that lists risks the company anticipates — and to identify the most “distinctive,” or unusual, things that rattle Lyft’s executives."

Practically, AI stuck "its nose" in loads of large data and took "the essence" out for its colleagues while the reporters had probably a well deserved coffee break. More in detail about how it works explains John Keefe:

"This is taking [data journalism] to the next level where we’re trying to get journalists comfortable using computers to do some of this pattern matching, sorting, grouping, anomaly detection — really working with especially large data sets.”

• Quartz’s technical architect for bots and machine learning

Source of the article: https://futurism.com/the-byte/quartz-machine-learning-report-story

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