I'm Better Than Chatbots at the Job They're Trying to Take

If there is one thing the boosters and cynics agree on about artificial intelligence, it's that the tech is coming for white-collar jobs. This is not speculation of a far-off future--it's happening now. It makes sense, from a cold business perspective, that text-based media would want to adopt A.I. in order to cut costs (humans, expensive) and speed up output (humans, slow). Just look at how BuzzFeed's rock-bottom stock value jumped when it said last month that the site would use services from buzzy startup OpenAI to spiff up the site's famed quizzes. As Damon Beres wrote in the Atlantic shortly after the announcement: "The bleak future of media is human-owned websites profiting from automated banner ads placed on bot-written content, crawled by search-engine bots, and occasionally served to bot visitors."