Idealism in E-Lit

The Perfect Poet?

Sadly, as obvious from this picture, Evolution doesn't truly creates poetry, but that doesn’t mean that the project itself doesn’t question some of the ideals of writing. Writing is currently something only done by people, but what’s keeping machines from being able to write as well? If they could write, would a combination of procedural generation and originality surpass the writing of human authors? Evolution forces the reader to ask these questions and consider the possibility of machines not only being utilized for industrial jobs, but also news articles, movie scripts, and much, much more. Currently, as displayed by Evolution, the A.I. can’t recognize sentence patterns as well as create cohesive sentences while it is learning. However, there is an A.I. program in gmail that can suggest how someone might want to write when composing an email. This is called Google Smart Compose and it is an automatic feature in Gmail that will show suggested endings to a sentence that the user has started to write (Dai). This program also pulls from billions of written emails from around the globe to find the most fitting string of words for a gmail user. This is another step towards the proposed mechanical author, but even this is not ideal. The inability to create its own structured thoughts through the English language only displays the fact that humans are in fact the ideal authors. Even though machines can be used for optimization of repetitive processes, they are unable to author their own thoughts, thus they require human inputs for anything they are trying to write. This just makes the machines an unnecessary middle-man that can only repeat what it has been told before. 

Works Cited
Dai, Andrew, et al. “Gmail Smart Compose: Real-Time Assisted Writing.” Google AI, 1 Jan. 1970, https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub48231/.

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