The biggest difference between Google Bard and ChatGPT is that, as of this writing, Bard knows about ChatGPT but ChatGPT is blissfully unaware of Bard. But I can play around with ChatGPT, while Google Bard is still out of reach for most of us. Both ChatGPT and Google Bard are AI chatbots. The simplest version of this technology already exists on your smartphone - you type "Good," and your phone predicts that the next word you might want to use is "morning." ChatGPT was originally developed by OpenAI and then invested in by Microsoft for an eye-watering $10 billion (in addition to an earlier $1 billion investment).

Writing already involves AI, in the form of predictive text for example. We are familiar with this on our phones and in our emails. Humans have been collaborating with technology for writing since sticks were used for drawing in sand or on cave walls. Ingenuity and creativity mean that this technology is constantly changing. Most recently, the advent of AI writers (software that uses artificial intelligence to generate text) has created a lot of excitement and concern.

If you've ever used predictive text, you've used natural language processing technology. But its uses extend far beyond finishing your sentences in texts and emails. Find out how it can benefit your company, your team, and your customers. A computer didn't write this article. It wrote this one for The Guardian, though.

Would you believe us if we told you that the sentence you're currently reading was written by an AI-driven writing machine? Well, in today's world of Flippy the burger-flipping robot and flying cars (well, we're almost there), just about anything is possible. In February 2017, 28-year old Dong Kim, one of the world's greatest poker players, sat at a casino to play against a machine for twenty straight days. Just like every other person in the room, he was confident that he would floor his opponent. This event, regardless of how ludicrous it may sound, triggered an exciting and yet dubious realization.

Of the 7,117 living languages currently known, Apple's Siri supports 21, Amazon Alexa eight, and Google Home 13. Our learned ability to use words to construct sentences that convey information, ideas, and emotions in an organized way makes us unique among animals. However, language has significance beyond communication. It is an expression of cultural identity, a demonstration of the existence of communities of peoples. According to Ethnologue: Languages of the World, there are currently 7,117 known living languages.

I glanced down at my left thumb, still resting on the Tab key. Had my computer become my co-writer? That's one small step forward for artificial intelligence, but was it also one step backward for my own? The skin prickled on the back of my neck, an involuntary reaction to what roboticists call the "uncanny valley"--the space between flesh and blood and a too-human machine. For several days, I had been trying to ignore the suggestions made by Smart Compose, a feature that Google introduced, in May, 2018, to the one and a half billion people who use Gmail--roughly a fifth of the human population.

Is there an intelligent keyboard app for Windows 10? I use Swype on my tablet, and apart from being faster than keyboard typing, I love the power of its intelligent predictive text. My PC doesn't have a touch screen, but I feel I would still benefit from the predictive text, as I'm not a touch typer. I looked at Grammarly, and a couple of others, but they're not really what I'm after. Predictive text programs have been around for a long time, and many are still available.

As is tradition, yesterday I attended IP EXPO at the London ExCel. Normally at these sort of events I don't have the time to make it to any of the various seminars taking place, but this time I made a conscious effort to make some time and I am pleased that I did. I managed to partake in a very interesting talk from Dr Hannah Fry titled: How to be human in the age of the machine. As I bumbled into an already packed out Keynote Theatre, flat white and notepad in hand, I wasn't really sure what to expect. Tech isn't the sexiest thing in the world, but Dr Fry made the whole talk incredibly engaging with jokes, anecdotes, visuals and a healthy dose of audience participation.

"Once upon a time, I dreamed of being a children's author," says Selma Storey, "but inspiration is like fairy dust. I've tried everything, even random word generators, but I can't conjure a children's title from'leverage' and'asbestos'. It's debatable whether machines can be truly creative. Artificial neural nets are thinking machines modelled on the connections in our own brains. They can spot patterns within data, allowing them to predict earthquakes, steer self-driving cars and beat everyone at the board game Go.

A YouTube video was released this week that explained Bitcoin in a rather creative way using the predictive text from an artificial intelligence model. Botnik Studios released the video as part of a creative series that explores the use of artificial intelligence for creating artistic representations of language. The video was not an attempt to create a machine learning definition of Bitcoin but rather a creative portrayal of the Bitcoin movement in a semi-humorous manner. The predictive text was generated from a corpus of Bitcoin definitions that had been given in the past. These were used as a training dataset and then Botnik Studios creatively generated text from a predictive keyboard.