????金融和體育記者

????收集信息，采訪當(dāng)事人，問問何人在何時(shí)何地發(fā)生了何事，原因?yàn)楹?，然后寫出結(jié)果，這就是記者的日常工作。但是只要把信息變成機(jī)器可讀的格式，你就具有了顛覆記者這個(gè)行業(yè)的可能性。

????自2014年6月起，美聯(lián)社就開始利用Automated Insights公司的軟件和扎克斯投資研究公司的數(shù)據(jù)，試驗(yàn)由計(jì)算機(jī)自動(dòng)創(chuàng)建企業(yè)收益報(bào)道的可能性。在排除了試驗(yàn)初期出現(xiàn)的一些問題后，整個(gè)生成報(bào)告的過程基本上不會(huì)出現(xiàn)差錯(cuò)，甚至可能還要超過人工報(bào)告的水平。

????目前，美聯(lián)社（AP）的體育部門正在利用自動(dòng)化技術(shù)，生成一些小型體育賽事的報(bào)道。美聯(lián)社表示，這種做法可以解放員工，讓他們?nèi)プ龈匾氖虑?，同時(shí)也緩解了媒體預(yù)算。軟件科學(xué)家、《機(jī)器人崛起：科技與未來失業(yè)的威脅》一書的作者馬丁?福特表示：“美聯(lián)社稱，該技術(shù)可以根據(jù)數(shù)據(jù)撰寫出一份頗有吸引力的文章，水平不亞于一名經(jīng)驗(yàn)豐富的作家?！笨紤]到有些大學(xué)畢業(yè)生的寫作水平確實(shí)不怎么樣，加上“機(jī)器要想超越一名大學(xué)生，需要克服的障礙并不那么高”，記者這個(gè)行當(dāng)?shù)那熬暗拇_令人堪憂。曾幾何時(shí)，剛?cè)胄械牟锁B們也要干些低難度的活，學(xué)學(xué)基本的手藝。這才不到一年，記者的潛在生存空間已經(jīng)變小了。

????Financial and Sports Reporters

????Gathering information; interviewing people; answering who, what when, where, why, and how; and writing the results. It's the daily grind for journalists. But make the information machine readable and you have the potential for disruption.

????Associated Press has run an experiment of automatically creating corporate earnings reports since June 2014 with software from Automated Insights and data from Zacks Investment Research. After working through problems at the outset, the process is virtually error-free, which likely beats what humans would do.

????AP's sports department is using automation to generate reports for events with small audiences. The organization says it frees up staff to do more important things, helping stretch media budgets. "The company claims it can weave that data into a compelling narrative that on a skill level an experienced writer can do," said Martin Ford, a software entrepreneur and author of Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future. Given the sometimes questionable level of writing demonstrated by college graduates and "the hurdle machines have to cross to out-perform humans with college degrees isn't that high." But at one time junior reporters would have done the duller work and learned basics of their craft. In less than a year, the potential pool has become smaller.