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Wired: Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter?

A Wired article, Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter?, provides some interesting insight related to computer generated news stories and financial information such as earnings releases.

A great use of this technology might be by the SEC to send out comment letters to filers.

Interestingly, someone seems to be doing this already to some degree with XBRL.

 

Posted on Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 08:12AM by Registered CommenterCharlie in | CommentsPost a Comment

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