AI Poised to Take Over Writing in Surprising Ways
August 23, 2018
Long ago, it was writers who told us technology would steal our jobs. In a fit of irony no novelist could resist, the time has come and it might just be snatching up the writer’s jobs. We discovered this in a recent BGR story, “Scientists Trained an AI to Write Poetry, Now It’s Going Toe-To-Toe With Shakespeare.”
According to the story:
“The AI was trained extensively on the rules it needed to follow to craft an acceptable poem. It was fed nearly 3,000 sonnets as training, and the algorithm tore them apart to teach itself how the words worked with each other. Once the bot was brought up to speed it was tasked with crafting some poems of its own.”
The write gives an example of the computer’s work and it’s surprisingly solid. However, many experts are saying this isn’t the end of creativity. As pointed out by Scientific American, just because a computer creates something that looks like art does not mean it is actually art. That’s because people overlook the need for human expression as an outlet—something AI doesn’t have.
Let a software system create facts. Sounds like a plan.
Patrick Roland, August 23, 2018
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