Computers are
going to
start writing about mi**r league baseball
"Jayson Aqui** tossed a three-hit shutout and Quincy Latimore had three hits and two RBI, as the Bowie Baysox topped the Akron RubberDucks 6-0 in the first game of a doubleheader on Sunday."
That's the kind of straight-ahead, **-**nsense, get-the-new-upfront lede that comes from a professional journalist at the Associated Press.
This particular lede, however, was written by a computer. (You can read the rest of the story at the bottom.)
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The Associated Press has struck a deal to cover
mi**r league baseball games with the help of computer-generated stories based off game data, one of the biggest moves yet toward more automated and algorithm-based journalism.
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