Washington Post resorts to robots to write Rio Olympics updates

The Washington Post has revealed it has become the latest newspaper to rely on software for data-driven coverage of the fast paced Rio Olympics, augmenting its team of human reporters with AI screeds.
Heliograf has been developed by a team of three in-house engineers at the Post, capable of reporting on medal tallies and individual wins as and when they happen.
This will see hundreds of real-time news reports on scores and medal-counts generated automatically without any form of human interventi