Will robo-journalists displace human reporters in the near future? The trends in newsrooms suggest so

In November 2018, a text-generating "bot" named Tobi produced an incredible 40,000 news stories about Switzerland elections in just five minutes for Tamedia. According to a paper presented at the Computation Journalism conference in Miami, Tobi wrote on vote results of Switzerland's 2,222 municipalities in both French and German. Just three months after the incredible feat was reported by world media, robo-journalism is now being touted to change media landscape in the coming years. Now, artificial intelligence programs, which have been available for more than a decade, are being used by in news organisations to produce stories, personalise new delivery and even anchor news bulletins, reported AFP. "We've seen a greater acceptance of the potential for artificial intelligence, or robo-journalism, in newsrooms around the world," Damian Radcliffe, a University of Oregon professor who follows business models for journalism, told the news agency.