The New Yorker

The Computers Are Getting Better at Writing

Whatever field you are in, if it uses language, it is about to be transformed.

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Takeaways

Brute computational power is why Sudowrite can write like Kafka.

Whatever field you are in, if it uses language, it is about to be transformed. The changes that are coming are fundamental to every method of speaking and writing that presently exists.

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