In a development that might change the way the media industry works, a robot journalist has made its debut in a Chinese daily newspaper on Wednesday and completes a 300 characters long article in just a second, said scientists.
The article was based on the Spring Festival travel rush and author, Xiao Nan, took only a second to finish writing the story. It was capable to write both short and longer reports, according to Wan Xiaojun, a professor at Peking University who heads the team developing such robots.
“When compared with the staff reporters, Xiao Nan has a stronger data analysis capacity and is quicker at writing stories,” he said. “But it does not mean intelligent robots will soon be able to completely replace reporters,” Xiaojun was quoted as saying by ‘China Daily’.
Presently, robots are not capable to conduct face-to-face interviews. Apart from that it cannot respond intuitively with follow-up questions and do not have the knack to pick a news angle from an interview or conversation, said Xiaojun.
“But robots will be able to act as a supplement, helping newspapers and related media, as well as editors and reporters,” he said.
