记者的危机感—Google用人工智能写新闻

                                                                                            

Google is giving the UK Press Association news agency(英国国家通讯社) $806,000 to start writing stories with the help of artificial intelligence. The money is from Google’s Digital News Initiative fund. The fund supports digital news in Europe. The PA supplies news stories to media institutions all over the UK and Ireland. It plans to produce 30,000 local stories a month with the help of AI.
AI articles will be the product of collaboration with human journalists. Writers will create “detailed story templates”for topics like crime, health, and unemployment. Reporters, data and robots will fill in the blanks and helping localize each article. This sort of work-flow has been used for years, with the Los Angeles Times using AI to write news stories about earthquakes since 2014.

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1.How much money is Google giving to the UK Press Association news agency?

A $6,000.

B $30,000.

C $86,000.

D $806,000.

解析：选D。细节理解题。根据第一段第一句Google is giving the UK Press Association news agency $806,000 to start writing stories with the help of artificial intelligence.可知谷歌将向英国国家通讯社提供80.6万美元资金，帮助其借助人工智能进行新闻写作，故选D。

2.Where is the money from?

A The money is from savings.

B The money is from a fund.

C Google borrowed it from banks.

D The passage doesn’t refer to it.

解析：选B。细节理解题。根据第一段第二句The money is from Google’s Digital News Initiative fund.可知这笔资金来自于谷歌的“数字新闻行动”基金，故选B。

3.What does the PA supply?

A The PA supplies news stories to media institutions.

B The PA supplies news products to supermarkets.

C The PA supplies raw materials to factories.

D The PA supplies plans to governments.

解析：选A。细节理解题。根据第一段第四句The PA supplies news stories to media institutions all over the UK and Ireland.可知英国国家通讯社目前向英国和爱尔兰的媒体机构提供新闻报道，故选A。

4.What kind of “detailed story templates” topic will NOT writers create?

A Jokes.

B Health.

C Crime.

D Unemployment.

解析：选A。细节理解题。根据第二段第二句Writers will create “detailed story templates”for topics like crime, health, and unemployment可知作者将给犯罪、健康、失业等话题创建“详细的报道模板”，故选A。

5.When did the Los Angeles Times begin to use AI to write news stories?

A In 1806.

B In 1930.

C In 2004.

D In 2014.

解析：选D。细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句This sort of work-flow has been used for years, with the Los Angeles Times using AI to write news stories about earthquakes since 2014.可知,其实此工作流程已被使用数年，从2014年起《洛杉矶时报》便开始利用人工智能技术来撰写关于地震的新闻报道了，故选D。