Narrative Science

Have you ever dreamed if one day the robots could be the world masters, if technology can operate without the help of humans? This is a very interesting question so I’ve decided to do my presentation on the press writers of the future.

Pulitzer Prize, created in 1904, is an American prize awarded in various fields, from journalism to music. In journalism, it’s considered the most prestigious. In general, we give this award to a human but one day, a machine may have this award.

For some time the financial magazine Forbes has called a special society to generate automatically items on line at the eve of the major companies’ financial results announcement. Is there a human being behind this article?

Thanks to its platform of patented artificial intelligence, Narrative Science transforms data into articles and speeches understandable.

Now the robot wrote the article, but humans continue to accumulate money in their hands.

For the moment the automatic journalism is especially changing in sports, finance and real estate.

Articles are written with a lot of data like statistics. Clearly, this software "transforms data item, so that the result is indistinguishable from an article written by a journalist", says the company on its website. But now Narrative Science begins to occupy political journalism in developing products for the treatment of U.S. elections by Twitter. We must admit that: To analyze Twitter, we are not better than robots.

This process is much cheaper than paying real journalists. And Narrative Science claims to be more comprehensive and objective than any reporter.

Write and edit articles instantly customize them to adapt to the interests and habits of the reader: it’s the purpose of auto journalism.

But this new process does not delight everyone. Some believe that this fosters massive layoffs.

Others believe that it opens the door to even more division between journalism to two lanes between on the one hand a large supply of free articles very factual and secondly a premium offering, even luxurious, reports and investigations searched very writings.

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