By paul Chimodo
Two artificial intelligence bots (AI bots) employed as reporters at a media house in Hawaii have been relieved of their duties. This comes just two months after the bots replaced the human reporters who used to work at the local Hawaii paper, The Garden Island.
The termination was announced by a representative for The Garden Island’s parent company, Oahu Publications (OPI). According to the representative, the pair’s broadcast has been discontinued. While they did not give any reason for the termination, reports indicate that the bots managed to attract widespread negative public response and this might have played into the decision to end their terms after two short years.
The AI bots named James and Rose (Kai), were designed by an Israeli company, Caledo, that turns articles into videos. In these videos, the AI hosts, in this case, James (a middle-aged Asian man) and Rose (a younger Caucasian woman), discuss the news with one another.