While Microsoft’s Tay was being racist, an AI entered a writing contest — and nearly won

We’ve covered robot writers before, but to date it has never been much of a concern for actual writers. Robots just aren’t that good at doing what we do; although Microsoft’s ‘Tay’ did prove to be pretty great at going from zero to off-the-rails after dealing with some nasty Twitter comments — something any writer can relate to. Until now, “robot writers” — artificial intelligence programs taught to write — were mainly only good at penning quick stories based on data-heavy reports. Box scores, stock reports, and the like were basically all the programs were capable of doing well. A team…

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