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Larry Ryan: No danger here with an AI commentator

For those from a farming background, the phrase ‘AI commentator’ probably conjures even more disturbing aural nightmares.
TV TAKES: A general view of a TV gantry. Pic: Alessandra Tarantino - Pool/Getty Images

TV TAKES: A general view of a TV gantry. Pic: Alessandra Tarantino - Pool/Getty Images

THERE was a warning shot fired this week via the RTÉ website: “AI to generate commentary at European Games”.

The machines are coming for us all, of course, and would you be any the wiser if they had come for some of us already? (A few would say the sub-editors, because the column might be in on time).

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