Artificial Intelligence Arrives For Local News

The early waves of artificial intelligence are already lapping at the shores of local TV news. For now, AI is largely confined to the realm of metadata and closed captioning among larger, international media companies, according to Ethan Dreilinger, solutions engineer for Watson Media and IBM Cloud Video. But the next wave could see more AI functionality -- and affordability -- soon enough. Dreilinger told NAB Show attendees here on Sunday that Watson's primary role at present is retrieving metadata within a media organization's video -- essentially a search and discovery operation. Say, for instance, tags have been misspelled in videos long languishing in a media company's asset management system.