How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Authors Write a Better Novel

Of all the sectors that artificial intelligence is disrupting--finance, health care, transportation--the creative art of fiction writing seems like the least likely candidate to be impacted by A.I. But A.I. has arrived like a gift-wrapped box on the doorstep of the author community. Or do we need to worry that what's inside will put authors out of a job? It turns out that a new fiction-savvy bot is not out to take the place of the next Hemingway, Steinbeck or Atwood. Nor is it out to displace editors or other humans.