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.

Google is giving British journalists over €700,000 to help them incorporate artificial intelligence into their work. Google awarded the grant to The Press Association (PA), the national news agency for the UK and Ireland, and Urbs Media, a data driven news startup. It's one of the largest handed out by Google's €150 million Digital News Initiative (DNI) Innovation Fund. Peter Clifton, editor-in-chief of PA, explained that humans would still be involved in producing AI-assisted stories. "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.