Sports journalism is already available to the robot

Sports journalism is already available to the robotWe recently wrote about the Japanese robot who is ready to replace the television reporter, take a brief interview and send the text on the web page. Apparently, the idea of a little robot to press the writing fraternity, seriously and permanently settled in the minds of developers.

American Statistical company Statsheet, which specializes in information about sports, now in its third year of trying to create a robot journalist. As stated by CEO Robbie Allen, a robot will be able Statsheet, analyzing the results of sports matches, make a small comment. It is still only about a college basketball teams, but “evil and misfortune began. The creators say that in the near future, the robot will be able to describe the matches at any level and any game competitions. With regard to the process of presentation of information in the form of text, then the “broad” audience test pen to produce a robot they have not yet solved. But the fans loved basketball teams in college completely satisfied factual account of the material artificial reporter site on the Internet. The creators hope to finalize the draft to the point where ninety percent of readers can not distinguish between text written by a robot from a text written by a living person.

This summer, the Internet site on the sport theme, which the robot Statsheet will support, as an ordinary blogger, will be available for general use. The site will track the position of the team in the standings, to learn the results of current and past games, as well as read the comments of the robot.

While mechanized journalist Statsheet created as an experimental model. It is noteworthy that robotic breakthrough in journalism began it with a sports theme – an area where all information is based mainly on figures, and highly artistic expressions, are used more for decorations. But who knows, it is possible robots will reach both journalism majors to the other!

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