It's no secret that in recent years the public's trust in the media has been upended with the staggering amount of "fake news" circulating the internet, but one news company, in particular, has set out to correct this issue by incorporating machine learning methods into the journalistic process. Knowhere collects a lot of data in order to write completely unbiased news: "We need a human and A.I. collaboration to scan the quantity of information that is published out there, and re-establish trust in what we're writing," explains Alexandre Elkrief, the president and co-founder of Knowhere. For Knowhere's team of journalists, the initial step to publishing any news story is to first decide what that story is. From there, they are able to quantify the stories they collect to learn which news reports are being written about most at any given time, on any given day. This allows them to decide what to write about and, subsequently, what to publish next.

Bias in journalism is nothing new, but there are growing concerns technology is pushing us into echo chambers where we only hear one side of the story. Now a startup says it's using AI to bring us a truly impartial source of news. Knowhere launched earlier this month, alongside an announcement that it had raised $1.8 million in venture capital. The site uses AI to aggregate news from hundreds of sources and create three versions of each story: one skewed to the left, one skewed to the right, and one that's meant to be impartial. Natural language processing algorithms trawl through more than a thousand news sources to identify popular stories, the company told Motherboard.

Want your news delivered with the icy indifference of a literal robot? You might want to bookmark the newly launched site Knowhere News. Knowhere is a startup that combines machine learning technologies and human journalists to deliver the facts on popular news stories. First, the site's artificial intelligence (AI) chooses a story based on what's popular on the internet right now. Once it picks a topic, it looks at more than a thousand news sources to gather details.

The artificial intelligence boom has expanded into creative fields once deemed uniquely human, like music, poetry, and even narrative podcasts. AI has also started writing rudimentary news articles and assisting reporters, but a new startup launched Wednesday says it will use AI to publish breaking news about a wide variety of topics. The site is called "Knowhere," and its creators say that they believe AI can be used to write unbiased news. The site will publish three versions of every article, aggregated from right-, left-, and center-leaning websites. "Fake news, the Russia misinformation scandal, and all of these issues that are at the top of the Zeitgeist at the moment are all symptoms of a fundamental problem that information moves too fast and at too large a scale for us to be able to reliably parse it and understand the world as human beings," Knowhere editor-in-chief and cofounder Nathaniel Barling and told me on the phone.