AI is so new and exciting, just ask Ananova

She’s 17 this month We visited the emerald-eyed, green-haired virtual newscaster, Ananova, in Leeds England, in July 2001, for her first birthday. I was reminded of her due to all the recent news about AI and how reporters will no longer be needed. For example, the Bezos Post introduced an AI-powered story generating program call Heliograf , from a project they started back in 2013. The Post’s goal with the project is to grow its audience in an age of declining news (fake or otherwise) readers. However, instead of targeting a big audience with a small number of labor-intensive human-written