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“I can write but I can’t read.” Who could ever say that?  In fact, much of what you read today is generated by such entities.   Huh?

You need a couple of active, commercially available products in wide application today.  Both are a part of NLP – Natural Language Processing.  The first is

NLG – Natural Language Generation.  This is an outflow from AI (Artificial Intelligence) that can generate text from data (with templates and bias if you want). It is almost undetectable as machine generated, makes sense, and can be generated at the rate of thousands of pages per second.  It is used by news organizations, corporations, Investment firms, accounting firms, and the like.  It can be and probably is used by political parties to generate manifold texts for wide distribution.  Input is data, headline texts, and articles. It is nearly grammatically perfect.

NLU – Natural Language Understanding.  Also, it is an application of AI. You Alexa uses this already.  You ask, “Tell me a joke about horses,” and it first interprets what you want and then generally finds one in vast data bases of jokes.  This is somewhat different from the query, “Tell me an original joke about horses.” The solution to such an inquiry is well underway.
We will see in the years ahead, (a) the end of traditional journalism, (b) student compositions ordered online, (c) political activism movements operated by a single person in the parent’s basement, and (d) business bids generated in seconds.

BTW, did you know the Chinese have complete avatar-type newscasters that read the news. Google it.* This means AI can generate the news and the avatar reads it.  It looks completely human, but ain’t. YES, totally fake news.

*https://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2018/nov/09/worlds-first-ai-presenter-unveiled-in-china-video

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