A Chinese news outlet used an incredibly efficient "robot reporter" to cover the Olympics

A Chinese robot reporter produced 450 Olympic news items over the 15-day sporting event, mostly about China's dominant sports, like badminton and table tennis. While its prose was criticized for being somewhat rote, the coverage certainly was speedy, appearing minutes after events ended. The "AI writing robot" Xiaomingbot (link in Chinese) produced 30 to 40 pieces most days of the Olympics, and on August 14 it published 58 (link in Chinese), according to co-inventor Toutiao news. Toutiao, or "headline news" is a search engine and news syndication service with a website, app, and public WeChat account that boasted 530 million total users in August. Most of the robot news items were 100 words or so. The most-read was a piece on a Badminton Women's Singles game won by London Olympics sliver medalist Wang Yihan.