Why the Real Threat to Journalists Isn't Automated Writing  By
Edward Tenner Artificial intelligence is a small problem for the
news world-- the real worries of the Twitter-era are over-
saturation and lack of funding tenner sep12 p5.jpg   Will the
Pulitzer Prize for 2016 be awarded to a computer program? In the
time-honored tradition of necessary hype, that's the prediction
of one of the academic entrepreneurs behind a startup offering
automated writing services to hard-pressed newspaper and
magazine editors.  John Lavine, the dean of the Northwestern's
Medill School of Journalism, which is participating in the
project with its Intelligent Information Laboratory, is quoted
by Steve Lohr in the New York Times: "This kind of technology
can deepen journalism." Yes, cynics might counter -- by about
six feet.  It certainly wouldn't do if students started to
believe their tuition was going toward making themselves
obsolete, but there's a case (as Dean Lavine and the founders
believe) that computer-human journalism