The Agency tested the platform a year before start the work to report the news.
Information gentstvo Associated Press uses robots reporters to cover the games Minor League baseball in the USA.
About it reports a press-service of the Agency.
AR took this decision because the reporters of the Agency had not previously covered these games. So the company decided to shape the news with the help of artificial intelligence.
For writing materials utilize software that was developed by Automated Insights, data, and MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM), which is the official statistical provider of the MiLB.
The Agency tested the platform during the year, before starting work for the news coverage.
Director of AP Sports Barry Bedlan noted that to implement the system was not difficult technologically. However, editors and journalists of the AP doubted the quality of automatically generated content.
This approach is not new to AR, and in 2014 in the company using artificial intelligence for the lighting business and financial news (earnings reports of companies). New technologies are used for unloading of employees. Management believes that this will help them to focus on larger Analytics projects.
According to the media, to the practice of using artificial intelligence also refer to Forbes and The New York Times.
