Rise of the robo-journalists? Google teaches an AI the art of writing a good headline

Will newspaper headline writing soon be the job of artificial intelligence? While headline writing is an art that's been mastered by some humans, it's one that machines find particularly difficult. Google claims to have overcome some of the struggles computers have with summarising text and to have developed a machine-learning algorithm that can write "very good" headlines. 'Building AI is like launching a rocket': Meet the man fighting to stop artificial intelligence destroying humanity Skype's co-founder wants to keep humankind safe from the existential threats of artificial intelligence. The model, developed by the Google Brain Team and based on Google's TensorFlow software library, produced several passable news headlines using extracts from articles.