When Jeff Bezos bought the Post back in 2013, AI journalism was in its infancy with Just a few organizations with automated content generating systems, like Narrative Science and Automated Insights, were capable of producing a basic, data oriented news items familiar to sports buffs and stock market analysts. But the planners at the newspaper saw the prospect for an AI system that would generate detailed, insightful piece of writings. What’s more, they wanted a system that could foster “a seamless interaction” between human and machine, says Jeremy Gilbert, who joined the Post as director of strategic initiatives in 2014. “What we were interested in doing is looking at whether we can evolve stories over time,” he says. These programs at the moment are serving numerous different purposes. Helping to scan speedily is one of them.

Artificial Intelligence is providing articulate briefs of documents. An AI algorithm developed by researchers at Salesforce generates snippets of text that describe the basis of a longer written piece. Although tools for summing up text has existed for quite some time, Salesforce’s solution is ahead by using machine learning. The system uses a combination of supervised and reinforced learning to get help from human trainers and learn to summarize on its own. Other algorithms such as Algorithmia’s Summarizer provide developers with libraries that smoothly incorporates text summary abilities into their programs. These tools can help writers go through number of writings and search for appropriate topics to write about. It can also help editors to read tons of emails, pitches and press releases they get each day.

Advances in Natural Language Processing have contributed widely to this trend. NLP helps machines understand the general meaning of text and relations between different elements and entities. To be honest nothing less than human level intelligence can have the rational knowledge and command over expressions and language considered a must in creating something perfect for publication Considering that these bots have to go a long way before they completely take over the task of writing proficiently. No matter if how proficient and relevant your content is, the real power lies in reaching out to the right audience. Unfortunately, old keyword-based search algorithms pushed online writers toward stuffing their content with keywords in order to increase their relevance for search engine crawlers.

“Although with PageRank, Google did a great job in organizing the web, it also created a web where keywords ruled over content,” says Gennaro Cuofano, growth hacker at WordLift, a company that develops tools for semantic web. “ But thanks to Artificial Intelligence, search engines are able to analyze and recognize content, and the rules of search engine optimization have changed hugely over the lst few years.

We’re already seeing glimpses of this next generation in AI-powered journalism. The technology is still in its infancy, but will not remain so for a long time. Writing can someday become a full-time machine occupation, just like many other tasks that were one taken as the exclusive domain of human intelligence . Coming back to the news business there are other such software being prepared in third world countries, which is a surprise in itself. Dante is one such software that is being produced by a Karachi based company baseH. Dante as an AI news writer is beneficial for the small and midsize media and publishing houses who aim at using the human resource intelligently to make the best of their resources.

‘This is what future would look like, intelligent and efficient’ said Anis Shiekh CEO baseH. ‘At this stage Dante is capable of writing a comprehensive news piece in a matter of seconds’ he further said with a whiff of pride in his voice. The company is comprised of not more than four IT professionals who have long standing love for programming, designing and machines. ‘it took me eight long years to execute this idea that I conceived decades ago and now we are on the verge of making it public and be used by any media house that intends to make the best use of it’ said the CEO.

Dante is a solution which can be the one of the building blocks of our future, in the demo you can see it writing a market closing report but it will soon be producing football match reports, financials, weather reports and general political news around the world. With the help of Artificially intelligent content writer, we are designing a news publishing system which is capable of not just monitoring the news by itself but to be able to produce news pieces before the editors before they can think of, AI news writer will keep producing stories in line with the company’s editorial policy the advance machine learning module enables Dante to learn about the styles and preferences of the organizations and then it works accordingly. The future is unlimited content; the next generation media house will not think about content production but it will only make choice of what to put online or on-air or on paper for that matter.

We will soon be putting AI writer in action live on the stock market reports following an unbelievable module of natural language generation that will produce match reports right after the ending of the match. The input sources for Dante vary our web crawler system can fetch the news items from the internet it can also use news feed (agencies) as a major input, incoming reports or initial information from reporters are also a major source for the artificially intelligent content writer.

The Artificial intelligent news writer just doesn’t enhance the capability of an organization to produce content at will with limited resources but it lets the organization explore many other dimensions of news content production. Equipped with a natural language generation AI writer software the media house or content producer can utilize the employee more effectively perhaps in the areas where human inputs make much more difference; by leaving the bulk of the work to AI news writing robots the news staff can work to shape the policy and direction of the website which in the long term would be beneficial in attracting more traffic and as a result more revenue.

AI news writer in no way negates the old fashioned copy writer but it empowers the writer by giving it a tool which can give him/her a final draft within second so that it can be enhanced by the human writer before it is presented to the world. By doing the bulk of the writing the AI content writer saves valuable time and resources and lets the organization do the focused work with having to worry about getting the work done in tight time schedule because with Natural language generation solutions like the one provided by baseH, the work is already done.

But after having talked of all these AI content writers including the AI news writing bot from baseH, the question arises how does this will affect writing? “Currently, the web is a place where how-to articles, tutorials and guides are dominant,” Cuofano says. “This makes sense in an age when people are still in charge of most tasks. Yet in a future where AI takes over, wouldn’t it make more and more sense to write about ‘why’ we do things? Thus, instead of focusing on content that has a short shelf life, we can focus again on content that has the capability to outlive us.”