The field of journalism over the past decade or so has been witnessing continuous change. Today, journalism is influenced by big data and new computational tools. Data and visualisation have become the latest techniques for telling stories in media, thanks to intersections between journalism and computation. One of the many things that AI is doing for journalism is to make it easier and faster to analyse the data and also synthesise the data into stories. When we mention automatic story writing tools, they use Natural Language Understanding and Processing, to synthesise the stories.

The development of interactive artificial intelligence has been slowly progressing over the last 15 years. Even chatbots that are considered advanced by modern standards still can't hold a candle to the level improv and intuitiveness required for a standard conversation. A recent innovation in artificial text technology may be the key to changing all of that. Adam King, a Canadian engineer, recently released his extensive artificial intelligence program "Talk to Transformer," an artificial intelligence language system based on the more extensive system unveiled earlier in 2019 by OpenAI. Talk to Transformer operates along with the same principles of OpenAI's system, albeit on a smaller and more niche scale.

Is it possible that an AI could exist or will exist in the near future that is too dangerous to release as open source and should not be uploaded to the public or even released even within companies' private networks? Were movies like Tron, Matrix, Terminators and others warning us of such a scenario? Surprisingly such a dangerous AI algorithm may already exist although for now it focuses on text and natural language processing. Click here to view original webpage at www.forbes.com