The First Novel Written by AI Is Here--and It's as Weird as You'd Expect It to Be

Last year, a novelist went on a road trip across the USA. The trip was an attempt to emulate Jack Kerouac--to go out on the road and find something essential to write about in the experience. There is, however, a key difference between this writer and anyone else talking your ear off in the bar. This writer is just a microphone, a GPS, and a camera hooked up to a laptop and a whole bunch of linear algebra. People who are optimistic that artificial intelligence and machine learning won't put us all out of a job say that human ingenuity and creativity will be difficult to imitate.