Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting better at writing, and is now helping to create books, sparking a debate about whether humans will be replaced as writers in the future.
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Tech worker Ammaar Reshi recently used an AI program to create a children’s book. Reshi used software to create the story of Alice, a young girl who wants to learn about the tech world, and her robot friend Sparkle. It’s part of a growing wave of AI-generated “creative” works, but many experts say it’s too early to worry about people losing their jobs.
“While there are certain areas where a large portion of writing can be automated, typically routine, repetitive writing such as summarizing a sports game based on recorded key events of the game, AI cannot completely replace human writers,” Yoav Shoham, co-CEO of AI21 Labs, which works on computer-assisted writing, told Life Wire in an email interview. “It’s very likely that most of the writing will continue to be done by humans, albeit using more powerful tools than previously available.”
AI software that can create reasonably sounding text with few human prompts has become extremely popular in the past year. The most popular current AI software for writing text is Open AI’s GPT-3, a language model that uses deep learning.
