The BBC's experiment, from what I can tell, has left the format of the core story untouched. All the chatbot' does is tinker with the format of what would traditonally be 'box-outs' in print journalism or possiboly 'related story' content.
As an ex-journalist, if feels like a valuable way of letting a journalist use the additional research information that has been gathered, but doesn't easily fit into the structure of the story and which would previously have been left in the journalist's note book.
As an ex-journalist, if feels like a valuable way of letting a journalist use the additional research information that has been gathered, but doesn't easily fit into the structure of the story and which would previously have been left in the journalist's note book.