Google gives journalists money to use artificial intelligence in reporting

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.