Your next creative partner could be a bot

When machines are able to do anything humans can -- be it farming, factory-working, or stock-trading -- they'll do it in a fraction of the time, experts reason, eventually rendering the human workforce redundant. Even creative fields aren't safe: artificial intelligence has already begun making its mark in journalism, fine art, and music. How could something so fundamentally subjective, so human, as art be mechanized? In fact, the Oakland-based novelist and self-described "tech-adjacent media inventor" is so unbothered by the idea, he's already invited robots into his workplace. Earlier this year, Sloan, a former Twitter employee, pieced together a program powered by basic applied AI to co-write short stories with him.