The network has developed, with time, other information systems: we have "traditional" managed by professional journalists and "alternative" run by amateurs. Then there's this trend, which poses the opposite of the above, and which has been called "the 'information, without journalists "(Pratellesi). Responsible trials is Google, which launched in the autumn of 2002 the project Google News, a news site that categorizes articles from the media distributed worldwide. As with any online newspaper, the pages are updated several times a day, with the significant difference that there will be no human intervention. To do all the work we think the machine: the technique is based on algorithms that process some 4,500 news sites every 15 minutes, to extract information based on some quantitative and qualitative criteria.
Marissa Mayer, director of Google News, explains what these criteria: - the number of articles on a particular story appeared on internt - the credibility of the source - the current topic.
Using these criteria, the ranking officer among the event top stories and places it in the category. So this is a classification based entirely on mathematical formulas, and was presented by the directors of Google as an opportunity for total objectivity: there is no policy or editorial that may affect the ranking done by machines. On this then we would object. Pratellesi about notes that "the first choice is always within a corpus that can not be as objective and independent as you would have us believe."
A person who chooses to see only Google News would certainly have to keep abreast partial information, as are the exception, for example, the entry of minorities and that part of humanity has no access to technology.
Google News is not the only experiment of Robo-Report: We NewsBlaster fact, invented by a group of researchers at Columbia University in New York. The computer uses artificial intelligence techniques to browse the news online, choose and synthesize them. Interpret the importance of the facts by taking into account such factors as the place where the news is, many times repeated in different articles and the significance of the accounts. A similar program was developed at the University of Michigan and is called NewsInEssence .
We infer that the machines and artificial intelligence to retire before we have started our career in journalism? According to Pavlik (the executive director of the Center for New Media at the School of Journalism at Columbia University) we should not worry about "artificial intelligence tools such as NewsBlaster NewsInEssence and have a useful place in the information age to save time search for information online and to help check the accuracy of its information, but should always be used with a bit of healthy skepticism. Also because these programs will never be able to generate original news report or chronicles. This is still the exclusive territory of the humans. "
short, for the moment we are still in a novel by Asimov ...
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