AI is starting to write and some of the copy reads quite well. Other writing is garbage. What’s the capability and limitation of writing by AI? Will AI ever write a novel that wins the Nobel Prize for Literature? Robert J. Marks and Dr. Selmer Bringsjord discuss creativity, artificial intelligence, and writing.

Show Notes

• 00:37 | Introducing Selmer Bringsjord, Professor — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
• 01:15 | Will AI ever write creative prose?
• 04:33 | The need for characters
• 06:14 | The mechanics of writing and Proust
• 08:04 | The complexity of language
• 11:34 | AI and financial reports
• 14:29 | Sports reporting
• 17:40 | Paper generators (Sci-Gen, MathGen)
• 18:42 | Recognizing AI generated content

Additional Resources

• Selmer Bringsjord’s website
• Bringsjord, Selmer, and David Ferrucci. Artificial Intelligence and Literary Creativity: Inside the Mind of BRUTUS, a Storytelling Machine. Psychology Press, 1999.
• Bringsjord, Selmer. What Robots Can and Can’t Be. Vol. 12. Springer Science & Business Media, 2013.
• Marcel Proust at Wikipedia
• Ex Machina at IMDB
• “Artificial Intelligence Can Now Write Amazing Content — What Does That Mean For Humans?” at Forbes
• “What News-Writing Bots Mean for the Future of Journalism” at WIRED
• “The First Novel Written by AI Is Here—and It’s as Weird as You’d Expect It to Be” at SingularityHub
• Generate a random Computer Science paper using SCIGen
• Generate a random Math paper using MathGen
• “Belletristic” definition at Dictionary.com