Jiuzhaigou earthquake: artificial intelligence shows its talent! Can writing robots replace journalists?

At 21:19 on August 8, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred in Jiuzhaigou County, Sichuan Province, which shocked the country. But what surprised the media and the public is that at 21:37:15, the China Seismic Network robot automatically wrote the manuscript, only 25 seconds to publish, 540 words and distributed 4 pictures, including the quick report parameters, epicenter Topography, thermal population, surrounding villages and towns, surrounding counties, historical earthquakes, epicenter episodes, epicenter weather, 8 major items.

What can I do in 25 seconds? Humans may still be in horror. The robot has completed the whole process of data mining, data analysis, and automatic writing, and sent it to hundreds of millions of people through various platforms.

It’s not as simple as 540 words in 25 seconds.

In recent years, China has established a modern digital seismic observation network, with seismic stations in all parts of the country and even in other parts of the world, and closely observes earthquake activities throughout the country and the world for 24 hours.

These data are collected in the data center and become an important source of information for earthquake information broadcast robots. The robot system runs on the Internet (cloud computing platform), and the background content required for writing is also from the Internet. Based on local data network and interface calls, spatial analysis and other technologies, the robot automatically “writes” comprehensive earthquake report information in a few seconds.

According to Pan Huaiwen, director of the China Seismological Network Center, robots are stationed in the push platform and can cover a large number of people within a few seconds after the earthquake information report is completed. Efficient push enables local users to get to know the source of the information in the first place, and to win the gold safe haven time.

Hou Jianmin, deputy director of the Data Service Department of China Seismological Network, and participated in the whole process of research and development of seismic information broadcast robots. He said that the main problem to be solved by the team is the unification of information timeliness and accuracy. "On the one hand, we have very high requirements for timeliness and require the robot to finish the news within a few seconds. On the other hand, the news written by the robot must ensure the accuracy of the content and ensure that it is fast and error-free."

After the earthquake, the seismic network should quickly calculate the magnitude of the magnitude and report the results. In order to quickly start an emergency rescue operation, this process is called an earthquake report.

With the rapid development of the Internet, especially the mobile Internet, people are paying more and more attention to the earthquake and more and more concerned about it. This puts higher demands on the earthquake quick report in the traditional sense.

"On the one hand, people want to know more and more comprehensive earthquake information. On the other hand, rescue work needs to have faster and more detailed information as a reference." Hou Jianmin said, "The original intention of developing this robot is: let The seismic information content broadcast in real time is more abundant."

He said: "In the past, after the earthquake, we will timely release earthquake information through other online platforms such as Weibo, but because of the time constraints, these messages are often less content, only the key information such as earthquake time, location, and epicenter location, the public. More rich content may be needed, such as the epicenter of the epicenter, the terrain of the earthquake, the population, the economic situation, the weather after the earthquake, etc. Based on this, we developed this system for automatically writing press releases through the Internet +. I hope to provide you with a richer version of the instant earthquake newsletter."

To put it bluntly, 25 seconds is not the most "glorious" record of the earthquake information broadcast robot, and 6 seconds and 560 words are "frequent things." However, the automatic quick report work is not so "bullish" at the beginning, even before 2008, the seismic quick report parameters given by the provincial seismic network and the national seismic network are not necessarily consistent.

In 2009, the earthquake system began to promote the application of automatic earthquake rapid report technology, organized the development of automatic quick report output platform and release system, and has become more and more perfect and more and more open.

In 2008, the Sichuan Wenchuan earthquake determined the seismic parameters in 14 minutes, and the Sichuan Ya'an earthquake in 2013 was 1 minute and 51 seconds. By the earthquake in Jiuzhaigou County, more than ten items were added on the basis of providing seismic parameters, only 25 seconds.

"The earliest statistics on the thermal population near the earthquake zone were not available. Later, based on the needs of disaster relief work, the scope of the disaster, the thermal population and other factors were also included in the scope of the robot's key broadcast," Hou Jianmin said.

Now, if people install the Earthquake Express mobile phone application, they can not only understand the earthquake parameters in the first time, but also the location of the epicenter, the scene around the epicenter, the nearest scene, the distribution of the nearest hospital and school.

In my opinion, there is no need to panic about this issue. In particular, this group of journalists needs to watch and treat. It is necessary to see the huge advantages of writing robots in the field of information collection, processing and analysis. Artificial intelligence technology, although the writing robot has certain advantages, it is still difficult to achieve the heights of facts, emotions, logic, and thoughts contained in the reporter's manuscript.

In fact, the media industry is no stranger to robot writing. Technically speaking, the writing robot is actually a digital technology and intelligent writing programming system. Generally speaking, the robot writing process is divided into four parts: data collection, data processing, automatic writing, and editing and issuance. In the face of massive data information, the processing speed of manpower must not catch up with robots. Robots are not only improving the information published by information, public company announcements, financial statements, official releases, social platforms, securities stocks, etc. The timeliness of the news, while saving costs.

For example, Xinhua News Agency's robotic publishing system has 500 to 600 templates in the background, which can present different manuscripts according to different requirements. At present, Xinhua News Agency's robotic manuscript system operation and maintenance team only needs 4 to 5 people, and the average number of manuscripts issued per day is about 100. However, it should be noted that these manuscripts are basically based on short and fast news. This time, the Chinese Seismic Network robot automatically writes manuscripts mainly based on information release, classification processing, and background introduction. It is not a communication, comment, close-up, etc. Manuscript.

Therefore, in this sense, although the current artificial intelligence technology is becoming more and more powerful, the writing robot can partially replace the journalist's work in the news basic field, and even more efficient than the traditional human work, but compared with the robot writing The greatest value of a person lies in the judgment of facts and the reasoning of complex logical relationships. This is the embodiment of the journalist's own creativity and the ability that robots do not currently have. For example, questioning, questioning, and finding news clues in the other's words is the magic weapon of human reporters. Compared with writing robots, journalists can produce high-quality, in-depth, opinion-oriented, analytical works. This advantage is precisely what robots do not have.

It is precisely because of the advantages of writing robots and journalists that it is foreseeable that a major development trend in the future of the press is human-computer collaboration to complete news works. The specific mode is to let robots complete the collection, collation, analysis and analysis of news information. Processing, then the reporter conducts deep excavation on this basis, completes logical judgments, and forms opinions and ideas. Therefore, in the face of the birth of the writing robot, journalists do not have to panic. After all, they are still higher intelligent creatures. It is not so easy for robots to replace them.

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