Google gives journalists money to use artificial intelligence in reporting

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.