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    “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.

    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?





zzipitydodaa  ·  3342 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Could you write that financial article in 60 seconds tho?

kleinbl00  ·  3342 days ago  ·  link  ·  
zzipitydodaa  ·  3342 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I expect one day we'll all wake up to an autonomous economy, the whole thing just having sneaked up on everyone.

Why don't you post that?

kleinbl00  ·  3342 days ago  ·  link  ·  

...What?

zzipitydodaa  ·  3341 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The url that I replied to above.

user-inactivated  ·  3342 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes. If the editor is willing to take . . .

"Shit's going great over here guys. We're making money hand over fist and we have a merger in the works with those dudes down the way. We will let you know more next quarter so sit tight because we have a few more surprises up our sleeves."

user-inactivated  ·  3342 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Great!

Now you just need to multiply that word count by ~20 to be on par with what the machine can do in the same time frame :P

kleinbl00  ·  3342 days ago  ·  link  ·  

not so. his reads like it was written by a human.