The Associated Press will announce the opening of a robotic robot to complete some of the work

Central Broadcasting Network Beijing July 3 (Reporter Zhang Jaining) According to the Voice of China "Evening News Peak" reported that this morning Beijing time, the largest news agency in the United States, the Associated Press announced that from this month, they will use a News writing software instead of manpower, handling many financial reporters rely on US corporate earnings reports.

Many online media require editors to complete a large number of "canned articles", especially some integrated websites, such as the Associated Press. During each quarter of the performance period, the Associated Press want to use a large number of reporters to compose earnings reports, and ultimately about 300 articles completed each quarter, because the company's earnings release is not a uniform standard, the release time is not the same Every time this time reporters feel extremely painful. The Associated Press said it is to solve this problem, announced the opening of the robot to complete this task.

In fact, the Associated Press is already using automated technology from Automated Insights for data analysis of sporting events, but it's the first time that a manuscript has been generated using this technology.

The specific process is that each time a company releases its earnings, Automated Insights automatically captures the earnings it receives. Based on the pre-edited composition of the Associated Press, in a matter of seconds, a 150-300 word newsletter is produced It's This will significantly improve the productivity of business news. In the past, people wrote about 300 posts per quarter. In the same amount of time, robots could produce 4,400 news articles that conform to the press. After the report is generated, after manual inspection, it will be released on the news network of the Associated Press. After a period of commissioning and quality control, automatic release will be expected in the future. However, the Associated Press will still allow reporters to personally write Apple, Google and other companies highly concerned by the market earnings news.

Associated Press executive editor Ferreira said it will not cut staff, the company's response most of the very positive. Zhang Chunwei, a Voice of China observer who came from a financial reporter, said she did not feel a sense of crisis when hearing the news of robot writing.

Zhang Chunwei: Actually, when I was working in the Financial Times, we can see Martin Wolf as our chief economist. In fact, he basically has the same view on the issue of exchange rate and the appreciation of the renminbi , So his point of view will be repeatedly used repeatedly, this time we can see a lot of analysis in the financial circle of a lot of data is a routine, not the need for a state of special intelligence, so at this time we To see a lot of data, a lot of financial analysis may be able to do better with tools. Personally, I personally think that this is actually saying that we do not evade the tools. People tend to think that tools will rob their own jobs, but ignore the tools that make our thinking more intelligent. Why do we say that many people now read more books than Aristotle, more than Confucius. But why can not Aristotle and Confucius. Very simple, because they do not have the ability to think down, when they just stay in Baidu search, Google search the first level, he can not form his third problem, the fourth problem, can not enter into the "Pirates Dream space "bottom. So by that time we are actually using data to help our work rather than stay in the data, but worry about the data plundered our job.

Ferreira said the Associated Press freed its editors from these canned articles, allowing them to better shape analytical articles and better focus on the "meaning of data." Zhang Chunwei also believes that the job can be robbed of the job is not really a gold content rice bowl.

Zhang Chunwei: First of all, I think there is a threshold for a financial reporter. Now that this threshold can be banned by the machine, I think this threshold should not be called a threshold. Instead, he thinks that the difficulty of entering this industry will be even greater. But another aspect is also forcing us to go beyond the machine, and do not worry about robbed of our machine jobs. I can not be robbed of the machine job, I do not think it is a real job with gold content. What he reminds me is that what we can do is what the machine can not do, for example you can let the machine finish your design, you can let the machine serve for you, not to say, because having machine let me lose So in the more sense of my job, I'd think that this time of machine writing is a gimmick, just letting the machine do what it takes for him to be competent.

Some commented that human thinking can not be imitated by robots within a short period of time, and analysis and opinionual reporting require a great deal of power from sources, knowledge accumulation and logical thinking. Automation is simply giving the robot some complicated work.

Zhang Chunwei: The tool is to do the requirements of people, or to let the tool according to the logic of the tool to complete his design. So more often, do not exclude tools, we believe that tools can be designed according to people to complete the work the tools, but you can not ask the tools is human, so more often, people should do more suitable for him field.