(ECNS) -- Robot-written stories are expected to expand greatly in the next several years as more domestic media outlets adopt the artificial intelligence technology, a blue paper said on Friday.
"Robot journalists," actually a set of algorithms that take data and turn it into words, are already being used in covering financial and sports news and preparing briefs, which are more standardized in wording and structure than news and feature stories.
The report said the algorithmic approach to compiling stories has overwhelming strengths over human journalists in dealing with massive data, a power that will be more used as the world is further connected by the Internet.
News written by machines will comprise a growing percentage among all reports produced when the technology is adopted by more media organizations in a few years, according to the report.
Robots can better analyze the reading habits of users and then produce customized news stories, it was added.
The blue paper was released at a forum organized by the School of Journalism and Communication of Tsinghua University, a media association and the Social Sciences Academy Press.
