Stats Monkey : The journalist robot

The French newspaper, Le Monde, wrote that journalist robots already exist and work quite well. The experimental program of artificial intelligence, "Stats Monkey", is able to autonomously write sports news. It can produce a headline of a particular game in only 2 seconds without spelling or grammar mistakes. Stats Monkey independently looks for websites specialised in match statistics, scores, goals, major events and even photographs. To write its article, the journalist robot uses pre-recorded forms of expressions that often come up. These writers are already perfected and would be as good as speciality news agencies. For the time being, the software only writes about baseball. However, it will soon be used for NFL football, basketball and the stock market. A commercial version is already foreseen for regional sports news. There is already a robot similar to the robot journalist called News at Seven that can produce a documentary video on the fly for Internet. For more info on Stats Monkey, go to the project website: http://infolab.northwestern.edu/projects/stats-monkey/