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Artificial Intelligent in Journalism
In the age of digital technology, artificial intelligence has adapted to many fields, including journalism. This field of computer science (AI) is, in fact, changing the practice of journalism. It is now possible to prepare the same material without human resources as a reporter working in Newsroom would write, with the difference that a new story is written even more quickly using artificial intelligence.

Technology company Narrative Science predicts that by 2025, 90% of the news will be written by bots. However, before this becomes a reality, big publications are already using their bots in the process of processing and creating information. These include The Washington Post, the BBC, Reuters, The Associated Press, Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times, and more.

According to a 2018 report by the Reuters Institute, 3/4 of the top 200 editors and supervisors surveyed use artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence in news journalism is mainly used to write about finances, sporting events, earthquakes, and topics with a lot of data. The publications known for these and other materials listed above use artificial intelligence as follows: in 2018, Chinese media outlet Xinhua has created a TV presenter based on the artificial intelligence of news outlets. Next year, the audience saw the debut of a similar female presenter.

According to Forbes, The Washington Post uses a robot named Heliograf. In the first year of its operation, the robot wrote about 850 articles. The Post uses Heliograf not to replace journalists, but to facilitate their work. The robot mainly works on financial data and coverage of school football matches across Washington. The LA Times uses artificial intelligence to cover earthquakes and homicides. The publication Bot collects real-time data on the victim's gender, race, motive for murder, police involvement, location and other data. 30% of Bloomberg's content is authored by Bot. The program Cyborg turns financial reports into news like a business reporter. He can write the title of the article and highlight the subsections. This artificial intelligence program also searches for important news on social networks and finds posts about disasters, attacks, resignations and other topics, after which it determines how much it is worth to cover this or that story. Relatively small-scale publications, including AP and RADAR, publish thousands of news stories written each week using artificial intelligence

According to the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has become a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for investigating sexual assault by physicians. While working on the topic, the publication used artificial intelligence to study more than 100,000 documents. Reuters even uses artificial intelligence-based software to process government and corporate data, translate materials into several languages, and verify information. And in The Wall Street Journal and the Dow Jones, artificial intelligence is used to decipher interviews and expose deep fakes.

In journalism, artificial intelligence manages to sort out difficult-to-understand numbers and convey a story, but its writing style is still stereotyped and similar. In RADAR, for example, for a program based on artificial intelligence, journalists create templates that include text fragments and its logical development options, so the text of similar materials is, in fact, constantly repetitive and only changes the data in it. For his part, the reporter uses interpretation when writing an article, showing facts from different angles, which artificial intelligence has not yet been able to do.

if the algorithm made a mistake, who would be responsible?
One of the logical answers is directly to the media organization, although in specific cases this issue is still unclear due to the lack of relevant legislation.

Conclusion
By some calculations, artificial intelligence can handle up to 15% of a reporter's job and 9% of an editor's job. Negotiating with sources, agreeing with them, and compiling materials in a different and interesting way is part of the journalistic skills that artificial intelligence lacks. It is true that modern technology offers many opportunities today, but the necessary features for a journalist are still irreplaceable