Robot journalists set to write the news

Computers could soon be writing your daily news, if a scientist interviewed on the BBC's Today programme has his way. Dr Kristian Hammond of the Intelligent Information Laboratory at Northwestern University in Illinois told Radio 4 listeners this morning that Stats Monkey, a piece of software developed by his lab, can produce sports reports based on ball-by-ball data from baseball games, without any human intervention. The results, according to Hammond, are...