Bloggers: can your posts be written by a robot?

Published by Alison Wem on

Hello fellow bloggers,

I came across this article, Artifical Intelligence Can Now Write Amazing Content – What does it Mean For Humans? by Bernard Marr who is a Big Data and AI guru. It is a well written article. Have a read and see what you think.

As an independent blogger, I feel it gives me the opportunity to share my thoughts and approach to life in the hope it will make other people’s life easier. I am sure you may be the same or looking to entertain and make life more fun.

Have a read of this article and let me know if you think a robot can replace the human emotions we experience which often inspires an author’s writing. Can they learn to demonstrate empathy? They seem to be learning to mimic many human behaviours.

What would happen if these robots started to go rogue, are there sufficient checks and balances or have we become complacent to potential harm in our drive for efficiency.

Let me know what you think.

Best wishes,

Alison

 

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the #1 Itinerary · 31 March, 2019 at 12:24 pm

Great post 😁

    Alison Wem · 31 March, 2019 at 1:17 pm

    Thanks. Do you think Bernard Marr is right? Or do you have another view?

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