Will AI Write The Next Great American Novel? - AI Summary

And then the Guardian editors took the best outputs and spliced them together into this one large op-ed." Still, according to Porr, the Guardian editors reported that the process was easier than, or at least comparable to, working with a human writer. But Parrish, an assistant arts professor at NYU who uses AI to craft verse, argues that computer-generated poetry is a new frontier in literature, allowing for serendipitous connections beyond anything human brains can create. While GPT-3 is not available for use by the general public, according to Porr, I could interact with it through a story-generating game called AI Dungeon, run by Latitude, a company purporting to make "AI a tool of creativity and freedom for everyone." Using the program, I could enter a line of text and it would produce a follow-up line that would presumably advance the plot. It's like the writing game "exquisite corpse," where a group of writers passes around a folded piece of paper on which only the previous line is visible as they construct the next line, but in this case, my co-conspirator was a computer program, trawling the internet for patterns in human-generated text, alchemizing gigabytes of language from the web into narrative. So, in fact, this tool is useless."