The first algorithmic news channel, based on artificial intelligence*

Channel 01 is a television news channel generated no longer by humans but by a human-machine agency. For the first time news reports are created by the news -machine rather than produced by humans.

In order to make such news reports as accurate as human-generated ones are likely to be , these machines will be programmed with the necessary skills for performing such tasks. This has the advantage that the machine's knowledge, not merely its intelligence, can make the news stories that the machines find interesting and informative. The human-based technology that powers television networks has a far greater chance of producing such "humanlike news" than has ever occurred. In other words, television is no different from any human invention in that respect .

The media, therefore, have become "human machines". In this context it is worth emphasizing what is important about television:

• TV is an object and not an agent of human thought,
• Television does not require human intervention to create new material and new sources of news content, and
• News is always created by the technology used to transmit news and not through humans alone.

This raises the crucial issue: Does television's "creation and control" require humans to " act out the programming "? If it does not, why should anyone want to watch a "human like" program created by an automated news agency ?

The " creators" of television have a very obvious objection: If a machine creates programming, then a human is to have a "choice" whether to view it or not . TV news has become a technology for the mass distribution of propaganda. It does not need humans to produce new stories and to disseminate them as a new mass of new information. It simply wants people to watch these stories to "experience " their content.

Media are, indeed, machines , but in the sense that all human intelligence is part of their machine structure. Television and human intelligence ( in particular the ability to " make sense of what people see ") can be viewed as having exactly the same underlying structure as a human brain : Each one has its own internal and external circuitry, and each one has evolved with a certain degree of success in making sense of the messages that we transmit to the outside world.

* This text was generated entirely with the GPT-3 algorithm. Every time you access or refresh this page, you will see different texts about Channel 01, all generated with GPT-3, the artificial intelligence algorithm developed by OpenAI. All the profile pictures were generated using a Generative adversarial network