How Artificial Intelligence Will Make You A Better Writer

The best way to make your writing better is to show it to someone who knows the topic at least as well as you do. That someone can now be an artificial intelligence system that reads and learns faster and more deeply than a human can, says linguist and cognitive scientist Kieran Snyder. Her company, Textio, has launched a new AI web service called Opportunities that she says can figure out what you are trying to say and suggest better ways to do it--within 0.3 seconds. The claim is tempered by the fact that it's limited (for now) to helping companies with job postings and recruitment emails. Some of the examples Textio showed me: suggestions to replace "focused on" with "passionate about" or "expanding businesses" with "rapidly growing businesses."