The Associated Press has partnered with crowd-sourcing app Scorestream to report high school sports scores on its media wire. The news wire of record in the U.S. made a splash last year after announcing a collaboration with Automated Insights, which the AP uses to generate short computer-written recaps of minor league baseball games. That deal was […]
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban explained Monday that the credentials of two Dallas-based ESPN.com reporters were revoked because he was against automated coverage of NBA games that he felt would become inevitable. @NoceraNYT I don’t want automated coverage of NBA games. But unless something changes, it will be inevitable within 5 years — Mark Cuban […]
In the same way that blue-collar factory jobs steadily became taken over by automated machines, this writer’s job could be in jeopardy if the Associated Press’ technology expands beyond just their most recent deal. With the help of natural language algorithm company Automated Insights, the Associated Press announced Thursday that it will be publishing written […]
Robots have always been synonymous with the future. From the Jetsons, to The Terminator, we have often thought of robots as the ultimate human creation. While robots aren’t wandering the streets yet, The Associated Press has revealed that it will work with the NCAA and Automated Insights to produce data-driven journalism created by robots. Over […]
