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Could computer 'writers' transform journalism?

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David Whitlock: +Joe Repka Most people have always been there. That is one of the essences of Conservative thinking. You should check out +Chris Mooney's new book on the Conservative Brain. Fitting facts into a standard format will impede discovery based on those facts. This is the problem being faced in biology. A synthesis that pulls it all together is… 04/13/2012
Joe Repka: +Andrew Carpenter , +David Whitlock: maybe this just has to be seen in terms of product and supply and demand. For some reporting or information presentation, the demand might be for 'Just the facts, M'am.' and style, social depth ond other such factors that machines are not good at for now or the near future are just not all that… 04/13/2012 Influential
Joe Repka: Great question, Dave. Are we crawling into a hole in which creativity has diminished value? Is that possible? 04/13/2012 Influential
David Whitlock: +Joe Repka and who is going to buy and read the works written by Creatives? 04/13/2012
Andrew Carpenter: Writing /slash/ communicating is about: PATTERN CONTROL. (like a flock of birds or a swarm of bees. the latter is actually more accurate) One little factor of the solution will of course to give the AI a social life, especially with intelligent, academics, etc. There's got to be a way to funnel many different facets of culture into the… 04/12/2012 Influential
Andrew Carpenter: Writing is not to be all lumped together. Not only do you have wide or narrow vocabularies...you have depth of knowledge. Not only that...you have depth of communication. Not only that...you have depth of contextual communication/meaninful and deep communication. So...my choice of words might depend on the zeitgeist of the moment and these subtle… 04/12/2012 Influential
Joe Repka: Only the lemmings, +David Whitlock. Creatives will go on as usual. And you might argue, or I might, that machine-generated text may be at least as good as what is learned from schools. Algorithms by any name... 04/12/2012 Influential
David Whitlock: It might, but if it does, it won't be pretty. When the "literature" that people will read is computer generated narrative, then what they learn to write and speak will be like computer generated narrative too. 04/12/2012
Joe Repka: Meh. All the more time for watching machine-produced TV. The only real concern in this future is that the wealth generated by machines in human stead be distributed fairly to all non-productive people, and not be concentrated in some x%, where x<10. 04/12/2012 Influential
Michael Weaver: Never say never, but it's been my assumption that the creative professions where human qualities are more important than the product or service itself would be the last refuge of human workers. 04/12/2012 Influential
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