By Ian Burrell

Reuters, the historic news agency that once delivered its reports by pigeon courier, is building what it is calling the world’s first ‘cybernetic newsroom’.

The 166-year-old organisation is a global pioneer in using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in news gathering and has created two major programmes; one that enables it to laser in on breaking news from clusters of comments on social media, and another to unearth business stories by using algorithms to comb its vast banks of financial data.

Yet Reuters has concluded that early 21st century automatons still have significant journalistic deficiencies. “Machines write bad stories,” says Reginald Chua, Reuters executive Read full story ›

Source: The Drum