I'm not sure it's fair to call it brainless writing. These algorithms
will use logic to determine what to write. Most sports writers don't
even apply that.
I call this an advancement.
On 2/2/11 2:43 PM, Amrit Williams wrote:
Security vendors have been using the "brainless writing" technology
for whitepapers, press releases and other marketing collateral for
over a decade, so not surprised that it is now being adopted by
mainstream media
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:47 AM, H Morrow Long <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I believe it was NPR which ran an article this past week on how
some smaller
newspapers are now using software to automatically compose sports
stories
from raw stats on games (players names tagged to touchdowns, field
goals,
extra points/attempts, etc.) where they can't afford to pay
sportswriters.
The software also apparently knows some 1,000 special colorful
sports "stock
phrases" and randomly cycles between them to describe such common game
events as "bases loaded", a "hat trick" and an "eagle" in an
attempt to make
readers think that there is actually a witty and creative sportswriter
behind the stories.
- Morrow
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Subject: [funsec] Further advances in brainless writing
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As a reviewer of books, and a researcher into social networking, I
must say
that I
find this new development at once redundant, and terribly frightening.
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