Feel like reading a nice book? Instead of visiting Amazon or popping down to your local bookshop, why don’t you fire up your AI app and ask it to write something to fit your mood? Twenty seconds later you have in your hand — phone, tablet, computer — a complete 100,000 word novel written in the style you love, and in your favorite genre. Even the cover art is designed to delight your senses.
You may think this is just pie in the sky nonsense. And you’re kind of right. There’s no way that current artificial intelligence can do this. Yet. But we have to remember that this is the worst AI is going to be. We’re watching the Wright Brothers stutter into the air from a grass field, bumping off the turf like a pregnant duck. It’s not pretty. But look behind this early technology, and we can see the potential for amazing things happening in the not so distant future.
