Robots are crammed in - a happy person: news in the Yandex tape will be written by bots

The company Yandex in November launches a special tape for the media and media. According to the head of the Yandex for Media project, Maria Petrova, messages will be prepared not by journalists, but by bots (automatic algorithms) of Yandex based on monitoring and data analysis.

While the news agency will notify about the situation on the roads, weather, as well as highlight the most relevant topics and events. In the future, the list of topics on which robots will write news will expand.

The data is supposed to be broadcast in real time and in different formats: for TV channels these will be graphics, for radio stations - a special interface with texts, for news agencies, newspapers, magazines and websites - a tape of notifications, Ms. Petrova told Vedomosti.
')
Subscribe to the newsletter will be free. On an individual basis, Yandex has already distributed subscriptions to several editors. Among them is the Interfax agency . This is confirmed by the Executive Director of the Interfax Financial and Economic Information Service, Yuri Pogorely. For several years, the agency has been receiving “Yandex” information about traffic jams, which are made by robots, and includes it in its feeds for subscribers. Interfax itself has a subsidiary Finmarket. Robots have been writing news there for 10 years.

Similar technology was developed by the company Narrative Science : its software platform Quill is an artificial intelligence that allows you to convert data into a coherent text. Among clients, Narrative Science calls in particular Forbes magazine . Some texts on the Forbes website instead of the author’s name are actually signed by Narrative Science, the Vedomosti data cites . Usually these are small texts devoted, for example, to the prediction of the value of stocks of particular companies.

A similar service from Automated Insights can process a large amount of primary data — tables, statistics, comments — and convert them into short meaningful notes. The Associated Press and the Yahoo News service are already using the Automated Insights robot journalist.

According to Vladimir Sungorkin, the director of Komsomolskaya Pravda , the new project of an IT company may be of interest to the media, and robot journalists can compete with ordinary journalists in writing simple news stories. Robots are unlikely to be able to completely replace journalists, Pogorely believes: robots will never feel an interesting story - they only answer the questions they are asked.