It was written in Chinese and completed in just one minute by Dreamwriter, a Tencent-designed robot journalist that apparently has few problems covering basic financial news. Okay. Let's be a bit fair here. I could probably write a financial news article and I can't write prose to save my life. Still, it's an impressive first step. How long will it be until computers start writing the narrative for a nature documentary about nudibranches or a feel good news story about a little girl with cancer and her doll collection?“The piece is very readable. I can’t even tell it wasn’t written by a person,” said Li Wei, a reporter based in the southern Chinese manufacturing boomtown of Shenzhen.
Could you write that financial article in 60 seconds tho?
I expect one day we'll all wake up to an autonomous economy, the whole thing just having sneaked up on everyone. Why don't you post that?
Yes. If the editor is willing to take . . . "Shit's going great over here guys. We're making money hand over fist and we have a merger in the works with those dudes down the way. We will let you know more next quarter so sit tight because we have a few more surprises up our sleeves."