The era of prime time news might just be on the brink of a new revolution, if everything goes according to the plan set up by the visionary researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois who are on the fast track to develop the world’s first computerized news telecast called “News At Seven”.

This all new revolutionary media outlet will be a completely AI (Artificial Intelligence) controlled technology, that will control all the aspects of the broadcasts, such as the graphic background, the wordings and event the characterized new readers. According to the Kristian Hammond (Director, Intelligent Information Laboratory),

“We can do it for everyone in the entire world and we can do it for organizations, and so an organization that can’t afford a studio and performers and writers can actually build a News at Seven piece in a matter of moments and do it cheaply and, quite truthfully, do it easily.”

The News At Seven project will not only be limited to online news broadcast, but it will be also have many facets to its personality. The designers of this unique system are currently running experiments to create computer generated unbiased reviews of the movies. In a similar experiment, Mr. Hammond engaged a computer graduate student, Nathan Nichols who was credited with the responsibility of instructing the computer to take images, clips and information about the movie “Watchmen” from the internet. These pieces of information were later compiled into the computer and the review debate began between the AI characters.

According to Hammond,

“It has a movie review dynamic and that dynamic comes from literally us watching shows like Siskel and Roeper where we saw two people interacting.”

Via National Science Foundation.