Narrative Science: Better Writer That Writers

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The CIA Invests in Narrative Science and Its Automated Writers

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Narrative Science has already proven that its robot writers can make sentences that are good enough for newspapers and internal company reports. Now they’re going to work for the CIA.

The Chicago-based startup, which uses computers to turn structured data sets into prose, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from In-Q-Tel, the venture firm that invests on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency.* The money comes along with a deal to put Narrative Science’s automated writers to work for the CIA and “the broader intelligence community.”

Narrative Science had previously raised $6 million. While it made its initial splash by figuring out how to create sports stories based on box scores, without the need for human intervention, it has been making most of its money creating prose most people won’t ever see: Daily reports for the likes of financial services firms, or a large fast-food chain, etc.
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[jcd11235 0]

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[quade 4]

Yeah, this isn't exactly a new science and I can understand why the CIA would be interested in it; they make a lot of reports based on tubular data.

What I don't think it's going to be able to do for quite awhile is have a human-like grasp of idiom, subtext or sarcasm.

Sarcasm: the shibboleth of humanity.

Hell, I maintain 30 percent of humans don't event get it and that's probably being generous.

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[jcd11235 0]

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Sarcasm: the shibboleth of humanity.

I get it, but only because I watched West Wing.

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