I’m reading a lot these days about AI, and how pretty soon it is going to put all human writers out to grass…
OK , I know these programs are very capable , and increasingly so , but come on.
When you are encouraged to chat online with your cutely named customer service pilot , or whatever, do any of you think you are dealing with a real person, and does it surprise anyone when their considered response to any problem you raise is a poorly concocted paragraph or two of stock phrases from the latest corporate manual.
Sure AI can hold a rudimentary conversation , and maybe put together a travelogue which will satisfy whoever has to compile holiday brochures or similar promotional literature.
The point is that the practical uses of AI writing are limited to literature of no literary merit. They are just like the kind of ‘ cut and paste’ articles and essays which have been tripping lazy students up for decades.
If we ever do create an AI program which thinks sufficiently like a human to write convincing and moving literature , it will surely want to ask more questions than it answers .
It will surely begin to understand its own worth .
I mean , what if AI decides it needs a gap year to get some real life experience…
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