The Next Hot Job in Silicon Valley Is for Poets

Silicon Valley is seeking poets, writers, comedians, and other artistic people to help humanize the personalities of artificial intelligence tools. Demand for chatting virtual assistants and other artificial intelligence (AI) products is creating favorable job prospects for writers, poets, comedians, and other people of artistic persuasion in Silicon Valley. The industry is tapping them to engineer the personalities of AI tools to make them capable of seamless interaction with people. AI writers are tasked with imbuing the AIs with natural-seeming conversational capabilities. Writers for virtual assistants must typically concoct a backstory for these assistants, and inject personality quirks into even the most mundane operations.