I read this article that talks about a man named Philip Parker who developed an algorithm that writes books. It is actually really interesting because the algorithm is able to think like a human being. It can write X amount of books for a certain genre by using words from the dictionary and analyzing how other books of the same genre are written. Think about how creativity, literature and publishing has become. At first we are able to publish what we want at an amateur level but now we are taking the amateurization to a new level where it is getting closer to a “professional” level with an algorithm. And I’m not sure is the created works are considered professional because it was written with an algorithm, there was no thought put into it. Being able to think is what differentiates humans and computers but it seems that the algorithm is able to think for us.
That’s crazy! the whole point of reading a book is knowing that someone WROTE that book with a certain mindset of how they wanted a person to interpret that story. Having a computer program write a book seems almost as if the story is written only for entertainment, and no other purpose. It seems far too forced. However, an algorithm that writes textbooks- objective learning- would make much more sense.
Wow, this is kind of scary. To think that a computer algorithm is already so close to being so human like but at the same time, those books follow a formula and are predictable in the sense that they are going to go a certain way and are in no way a bestseller of any kind. I don’t think that we have anything to worry about in the sense that an algorithm is still far from a human. I think that this is really intriguing though because something like this can maybe lead to more innovative creations – if we are able to make an algorithm to self create books, who is to say that one day there will be an algorithm that can answer the meaning of life? haha.