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Originally Posted by edslunch
We could be there now. There's a ton of ghostwritten crap books on the market that people lap up because they enjoy them, not because they are great works of art. The majority of people would be hard-pressed to define what makes a great novel outside of their personal preferences. Apart from any obvious grammatical errors or glaring structure and plot issues, I'm confident AI could write credible novels today. At least Harlequin romances and the like.
Ever notice how many books by James Patterson there are in an airport kiosk at any one time? He writes the outline then has an army of ghost-writers who may as well be AI.
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I'd say we're at a point where we could fool a lot of people, but maybe not quite to where it could produce something likely to catch on. Fluff that Patterson or Dan Brown churn out get scoffed at by literary folks, but there's no denying people are drawn to them. I haven't seen anything from AI on that level yet, but I expect it soon.
Dealing with high volumes of text still trips it up, but what Google recently announced shows incredible text amounts and very low errors. Once we can get to a point where it can hold a couple novels worth of material in memory and work off it, we should see some enormously interesting things.