The Washington Post will use robots to write stories about the Rio Olympics

Woodward, Bernstein ... and Optimus Prime? The Washington Post has a big team of journalists covering the Rio Olympics. Also covering the games for the paper: Robots. The Post is using homegrown software to automatically produce hundreds of real-time news reports about the Olympics. Starting tomorrow morning, those items will appear, without human intervention, on the Post's website, as well as in outside channels like its Twitter account. The idea is to use artificial intelligence to quickly cr...