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Forum: Internet Links Topic: In the future started by: thibodeaux Posted by thibodeaux on May 13 2012,05:21
Insert your own punchline here.< http://edition.cnn.com/2012....ex.html > QUOTE Chicago-based company Narrative Science has set out to prove that computers can tell stories good enough for a fickle human audience. It has created a program that takes raw data and turns it into a story, a system that's worked well enough for the company to earn its own byline on Forbes.com. Of course the journos are scared: QUOTE Kevin Smith, head of the Society of Professional Journalists Ethics Committee, says he laughed when he heard about the program. "I can remember sitting there doing high school football games on a Friday night and using three-paragraph formulas," Smith said. "So it made me laugh, thinking they have made a computer that can do that work." Smith says that, ultimately, it's going to be hard for people to share the uniquely human custom of story telling with a machine. "I can't imagine that a machine is going to tell a story and present it in a way that other human beings are going to accept it," he said. "At least not at this time. I don't see that happening. And the fact that we're even attempting to do it -- we shouldn't be doing it." It's impossible, so we shouldn't be doing it? And why's it impossible? Cuz he "can't imagine" it. Dear journalists: this is why the world wants you to DIAF. Posted by GORDON on May 13 2012,05:55
I bet the computer would not generate a story saying we shouldn't be automating things with computers.
Posted by TheCatt on May 13 2012,07:52
Wired did a write-up on this company in their latest issue, I'm only part way through it. One of the markets they're in, oddly enough, is Little League. Parents enter play by play details, and their computer writes a fake article on it. They can set tones for articles as well. So for Little League they only focus on the positive, kids doing well at the plate, etc.
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