Its quite impressive, but will they actually be able to write "real" articles, or just convert stock or sports data into paragraphs? Since its possible that data is easier to look at in table form.
I'm curious if anyone knows of any open source projects that are similar to what they are doing? This is one area I have a lot of interest in but I haven't had all that much exposure to yet..
When the headline is a question the answer is no. Works every time :)
Credit to them at least the "No" is within the second paragraph as apposed to the end of the article which is normally the case
New Headline:
Is the answer always no when a headline is a question?
Algorithms are certainly good at finding patterns in large data-sets, couple this with some talented writing at a high level and you may have a news service of the future.
Lately, I've read many tech and science news articles that could have been written better by a brick.
The short answer is: No - but they're a heck of a lot cheaper.