Google is giving British journalists more than 700,000 pounds to help them incorporate artificial intelligence into their work. Google awarded the grant to The Press Association (PA), the national news agency for the United Kingdom and Ireland, and Urbs Media, a data driven news startup. It's one of the largest grants handed out by Google's Digital News Initiative Innovation Fund. The funding, announced on Thursday, will specifically go to Reporters And Data And Robots, a news service that aims to create 30,000 local stories a month. "Skilled human journalists will still be vital in the process, but RADAR allows us to harness artificial intelligence to scale up to a volume of local stories that would be impossible to provide manually," Clifton said in a statement.

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The UK Press Association (PA) will soon hand writing duties on thousands of local news stories to robots. Cue headlines about the death of news media (seriously, though, this might be a problem). The project -- dubbed Radar for "Reporters And Data And Robots" -- will see computers create 30,000 news stories for hundreds of local papers. Although it may not be groundbreaking, the PA believes Radar will provide a boost to local news outlets at a difficult time.

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The news agency just won a €706,000 ($622,000) grant from Google to run an automated news service with the help of a start-up called Urbs Media, according to The Guardian. The project -- dubbed Radar for "Reporters And Data And Robots" -- will see computers create 30,000 news stories for hundreds of local papers. AI has been used in newsrooms in the past, but it isn't without its faults. Tests have shown that despite being faster than humans, computers can come up short in terms of writing style and readability. And, in most cases, some level of human oversight is required.

Google is giving British journalists over €700,000 to help them incorporate artificial intelligence into their work. Google awarded the grant to The Press Association (PA), the national news agency for the UK and Ireland, and Urbs Media, a data driven news startup. It's one of the largest handed out by Google's €150 million Digital News Initiative (DNI) Innovation Fund. Peter Clifton, editor-in-chief of PA, explained that humans would still be involved in producing AI-assisted stories. "Skilled human journalists will still be vital in the process, but RADAR allows us to harness artificial intelligence to scale up to a volume of local stories that would be impossible to provide manually," Clifton said in a statement.

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Google has today awarded €706,000 ($800,000) to the UK's Press Association to develop robot reporters that can crank out 30,000 articles a month for local newspapers and bloggers. The cash injection is part of the advertising goliath's €150m Digital News Initiative, a three-year program that allegedly supports European journalism through technology (or, rather, helps websites get more readers and thus shift more Google ads). Now in its third and final year, the fund will bankroll 107 projects in 27 countries to the tune of €22m ($25m) in 2017. The Press Association project – codenamed RADAR, or Reporters and Data and Robots – will be a collaborative effort with Urbs Media, a UK startup that specializes in automated data journalism. The Press Association is Blighty's equivalent of America's Associated Press – a roving newswire that feeds stories to publications.