Artificial Intelligence

I'm thinking about artificial intelligence this morning, about what it knows and how it knows it, about its regulation, about the world we're creating with it. 

Because I've built a career on words, and bots can now string words together so well that most of us would be hard-pressed to tell the difference, I want to think there's a level of creativity, a depth of soul that human-generated content has locked in. But because bots use creative, soulful work to build their models, that's not necessarily the case.

Some writers work with AI to perfect their prose style. Others rail against it with sentences not as felicitously crafted as those they critique. Who will win this battle? That's a question we can't answer now — and won't be able to answer for a long time. 

(These books are filled with human-produced content. Will future books be able to say the same?)