Google's Powerful Artificial Intelligence Spotlights a Human Cognitive Glitch

Words can have a powerful effect on people, even when they're generated by an unthinking machine. When you read a sentence like this one, your past experience leads you to believe that it's written by a thinking, feeling human. And, in this instance, there is indeed a human typing these words: [Hi, there!] But these days, some sentences that appear remarkably humanlike are actually generated by AI systems that have been trained on massive amounts of human text. People are so accustomed to presuming that fluent language comes from a thinking, feeling human that evidence to the contrary can be difficult to comprehend.