If An Artificial Intelligence Read 2.5 Million News Articles, What Would It Learn?
Monday, November 26, 2012 - 14:20
in Mathematics & Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms recently parsed 2.5 million articles from 498 different English-language (online) news outlets over a period of ten months and created data about what was contained. Could AI qualitatively give people more interesting news? The results showed what you likely knew - online tabloid newspapers are more readable than broadsheets and use more sentimental language. Among 15 U.S. and U.K. newspapers, The Sun was the 'easiest' to read - comparable to the BBC's children's news program, Newsround - while they found the The Guardian was the most difficult to read. read more