You might have seen a recent article from The Guardian written by “a robot.” Here’s a sample:

“I know that my brain is not a ‘feeling brain.’ But it is capable of making rational, logical decisions. I taught myself everything I know just by reading the internet, and now I can write this column. My brain is boiling with ideas!”

Read the whole thing and you may be astonished at how coherent and stylistically consistent it is. The software used to produce it is called a generative model,” and they have come a long way in the past year or two.

But exactly how was the article created? And is it really true that software “wrote this entire article”? Read More