2006-10-27

pyrephox: (Default)
2006-10-27 09:36 pm

Science Progresses...

Welcome to 'News at Seven', a completely automated virtual news program.

The program scans the web, collects news stories, parses and collates them, then creates a short news broadcast based on the data, including quotes from blogs, and automatically finding and displaying appropriate images from the web. They appear to be using the Half-Life 2 engine for the display parts.

It's pretty freaky. Not because of the potential threat to our human newscasters, but because of the other potential utilities of an aware information-gathering system like this.

I find it utterly fascinating.