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user-inactivated · 3402 days ago · link · · parent · post: End of the road for journalists? Tencent's Robot reporter 'Dreamwriter' churns out perfect 1,000-word news story - in 60 seconds
It was written in Chinese and completed in just one minute by Dreamwriter, a Tencent-designed robot journalist that apparently has few problems covering basic financial news. Okay. Let's be a bit fair here. I could probably write a financial news article and I can't write prose to save my life. Still, it's an impressive first step. How long will it be until computers start writing the narrative for a nature documentary about nudibranches or a feel good news story about a little girl with cancer and her doll collection?“The piece is very readable. I can’t even tell it wasn’t written by a person,” said Li Wei, a reporter based in the southern Chinese manufacturing boomtown of Shenzhen.