KARACHI: Pakistan has introduced the first-ever robot journalist, Dante,who writes and publishes a comprehensive report on stocks traded at thePakistan Stock Exchange (PSX).
“The Pakistan Stock Exchange is closed at 3:30pm (from Monday to Thursdayand at 4:30pm on Friday) and it gets the daily report published before itis 3:31pm,” said the award-winning tech startup, baseH Technologies,Founder and CEO Anisuddin Sheikh.
TheRoboJournalist, also called Dante, had been writing the reports for thepast few days, he said at a signing ceremony to get seed money from theElahi Group of Companies for the project at the National Incubation Centre(NIC) at NED University on Saturday.
Simultaneously, the artificial intelligence (AI)-based content writingsoftware develops a video on share trading and gets it uploaded at YouTube,Sheikh said.
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The robot journalist is capable of doing sports and weather reporting aswell. Later, it will be equipped to report on other sectors like health,education and culture. The financial sector, especially the securitiesbrokerage houses and asset management firms, can also hire the robot towrite comprehensive financial reports to seek guidance on taking investmentand divestment decisions every morning.
“We have advanced talks with three big media houses in Pakistan fordeployment of the AI technology,” the startup founder said.
