Is Facebook Going to Remove Humans from Trending Topics?

Trending Topics and Humans, a separation by Facebook

Facebook’s list of trending topics has turned into a source of interesting controversies. There have been plenty of allegations on how and why some editors have played with conservative news outlets. All trending new topics are chosen by humans. They select based on media and subject outlets. This is why the company is trying to replace humans with robots! Alas, you read it right. The company is planning to replace the human element and choose trending topics in a systematic manner. In fact, there is plenty of testing done in the company around Trending topics.

The Revolutionary Way of Using Robots!

The “new way” of showing trending topics is going to be a revolutionary one. The company believes that synopses and headlines will not be written by humans too. However, this is going to be a challenging process. Though there are smart programs to write trending stories, the process of summarizing headlines is a difficult one. Recently, the company came up with programs to write impressive stories about baseball games. The only challenge it faced was during summarizing.

The future and It’s key players – Robots

This doesn’t mean that the company wouldn’t be able to replace human beings with robots. It is very impressive to see that Facebook is going to run trending topics without any human assistance. And, when this feature hits the world – it is going to go a very long way. There will be little room for biased topic choices or controversies.

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