New York Times is using Google’s AI to expand online comments

Google is helping the New York Times expand its online article comments with an advanced tool designed to fight internet trolls. 

Using Google's Perspective — an API created by Jigsaw (a subsidiary of Alphabet) — the Times lets readers post comments on all top stories and opinion pieces during business hours.

Previously, readers were limited to commenting on about 10 percent of articles due to a having just 14 human moderators to review the online publication's nearly 12,000 daily comments, Recode reported.

But now, the moderators are getting some much-needed assistance from a machine-learning algorithm that Google first first released back in February. Read more...