The bot for the news feed went to work

A couple of days ago, many news sites passed information about the use by the Associated Press of a robot for publishing news. There were not many details, but the topic is rather curious.
Like any media company, AR has some resources that allow publishing information. And there are ways to evaluate the usefulness of published information. The most useful for readers were the financial reports of various companies. And the company Automated Insights has a development that allows you to automate the acquisition of data and the preparation of such reports. This technology allows journalists to be freed from the tedious processing and publication of financial reports and to spend this time working with sources and creative work. As a result, instead of 300 handwritten reports per quarter, you can now publish fifteen times more. It should be noted that the simple publication of dry numbers is not a problem. For example, the sports section of the same AR has long been automated. But the addition of numeric information with comments is still new. Live journalists are still needed, they literally edit and comment on these reports. Routine in this case becomes much less. The first time, of course, all reports are checked, but then it is planned to switch to selective quality control.

Bibliography:
blog.automatedinsights.com/post/90308227307/automated-insights-secures-5-5-million-in
blog.ap.org/2014/06/30/a-leap-forward- in-quarterly-earnings-stories