Artificial intelligence and journalism: a race with machines
Journalists in the newsroom of the American news agency, the Associated Press (AP), in Washington DC on 5 February 2020.
(AP/Jenny Kane
)
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Journalists in the newsroom of the American news agency, the Associated Press (AP), in Washington DC on 5 February 2020.
(AP/Jenny Kane
)
The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a somewhat catch-all term that refers to the different possibilities offered by recent technological developments. From machine learning to natural language processing, news organisations can use AI to automate a huge number of tasks that make up the chain of journalistic production, including detecting, extracting and verifying data, producing stories and graphics, publishing (with sorting, selection and prioritisation filters) and automatically tagging articles.