The Associated Press Is Using Robots To Write Minor League Baseball Stories

What I want to see is a robot breaking a big story on a Minor League Baseball beat — like a major prospect is using steroids, or better, two teammates are wife-swapping. But for now all robots can do is write formulaic game reports. So what good are they?

Actually the Associated Press finds them pretty valuable. AP, along with a technology company called Automated Insights, will soon use automated software to write stories for 10,000 Minor League Baseball games that had previously not been covered by human reporters.

So robots technically aren’t replacing human reporters just yet — these games would have gone uncovered of not for the machines. But that day could soon be coming. Have you seen…