Associated Press Will Use Robots To Write Articles

Writing Robot Mirko Tobias Schaefer/Gastev on Flickr, CC BY 2.0 The venerated AP now plans to generate and sell thousands of automated business articles a year. The robot-written stories will bring up the AP's story count in this area by an order of magnitude, Poynter reports. Over the past few years, several news organizations have used robot writers for some of their stories. Forbes uses algorithms from the startup Narrative Science to find and write short stories about companies whose stocks ...