Barbara K Iverson

Arranging a field trip for my class to visit Narrative Science which uses AI to write news stories.“…computers are not taking journalists’ jobs — not yet, at any rate. Instead, they’re freeing up writers to think more critically about the bigger picture. "One of the things we really wanted reporters to be able to do was when earnings came out to not have to focus on the initial numbers,” said Patterson. “That’s the goal, to write smarter pieces and more interesting stories.” This story was generated by a Homo sapiens who really wanted to use this Shutterstock photo as the lead image: