Eschow

An aspiring visual journalist who dabbles in everything from photojournalism to print design to online interactive graphics to programming. Currently residing in Evanston, IL, but a Californian at heart.

Find my main blog and my portfolio at Posterous.

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Discouraging news from the world of journalism:

http://theweek.com/article/index/219198/are-computers-the-cheap-new-journalists

theweekmagazine:

Narrative Science, a company affiliated with Northwestern University, has devised a new computer software that can write news articles in under a minute. The articles sound like they were written by humans, impressing robotics and language experts. “It’s as if a human wrote it.”

Except… a computer actually wrote it.

Narrative Science says it already has 20 customers using the technology.

Discuss.
- technology
- news
- computers
- journalism
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  Scary.
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  Light bulb… Maybe I could hire a computer as my intern!
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  Discuss.
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  We have more reason than ever to know the humans who write our news- a new computer program is able to write convincing...
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  Do you think this article was written by a robot? lol
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  this… is cool but at the same time shitty
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  I finish my degree...robot goes and steals all...jobs. So...
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  horrifying
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  i’m gonna go kill myself now that the one thing i’m good at can be done by computers too
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  These guys at Northwestern are doing some amazing work. Finally, someone to put an end to DemandMedia!
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