AI that can write news as well as a human deemed 'more dangerous than any gun'

From Shakespeare to Austen, many writers will go down in history for their unique and engaging storytelling. But writers in the future may have competition when it comes to their stories, poems and articles - in the form of an artificial intelligence sytem. Tech firm OpenAI has developed a text generator, which many claim is now almost as good as a human writer. The system, dubbed GPT-2, was trained using a dataset of eight million web pages. This rigorous training means the AI can churn out text in different styles, ranging from Shakespeare poems to news articles.