Google has given the UK Press Council a € 706,000 grant to develop artificial intelligence software to write 30,000 local news stories a month . PA editor Pete Clifton said: “We believe our partnership with Urbs Media can be a genuine game-changer for media outlets across the UK and Ireland. The project , called Reporters and Data and Robots ( Radar ) , is being run in conjunction with Urbs Media . Five journalists will work in concert with natural language processing software to turn national and local authority databases into locally specific stories about health , crime , jobs and other subjects . The grant is part of Google 's € 150 m three - year Digital News Initiative . Other grant recipients include WikiTribune UK ( launched by Wikipedia ) , Al ##dus English and Virgin Publishing .
Google has given the UK Press Council a € 706,000 grant to develop artificial intelligence software to write 30,000 local news stories a month . The project , called Reporters and Data and Robots ( Radar ) , is being run in conjunction with Urbs Media . Five journalists will work in concert with natural language processing software to turn national and local authority databases into locally specific stories about health , crime , jobs and other subjects . The grant is part of Google 's € 150 m three - year Digital News Initiative . Other grant recipients include WikiTribune UK ( launched by Wikipedia ) , Al ##dus English and Virgin Publishing .