I've been reading you for years and always chalked up your typos to your amazing productivity--you can't write that much and also take the time to thoroughly proofread. That said, your typos have largely disappeared. AI?
Much like availability of calculators has eroded basic math ability, what will AI grammar editors do?
In the not-too-distant future, will we all just speak into our device and have an instant, perfectly-corrected text posted for us? Will that encourage/ reward illiteracy?
It won't help, that is for sure. It will be interesting if humanity loses the ability to communicate with language and half the population is too autistic to even understand facial expressions and body language.
This is a great sentence using old-school conventional grammar: "What the robots can do for the writer is offer many ways to phrase something and then let him select that which fits his style or that he thinks gets his point across the best to the human reader." Will the new AI editor change it to "What the robots can do for the writer is offer many ways to phrase something and then let THEM select that which fits THEIR style or that THEM thinks gets THEIR point across the best to the human reader."
I've been reading you for years and always chalked up your typos to your amazing productivity--you can't write that much and also take the time to thoroughly proofread. That said, your typos have largely disappeared. AI?
This is an awful long post just to cope for your shitty editing Zman.
Much like availability of calculators has eroded basic math ability, what will AI grammar editors do?
In the not-too-distant future, will we all just speak into our device and have an instant, perfectly-corrected text posted for us? Will that encourage/ reward illiteracy?
It won't help, that is for sure. It will be interesting if humanity loses the ability to communicate with language and half the population is too autistic to even understand facial expressions and body language.
Anytime I spot a type in Zman's articles I feel smart.
lol “type”
Oops lol. I blame autocorrect!
This is a great sentence using old-school conventional grammar: "What the robots can do for the writer is offer many ways to phrase something and then let him select that which fits his style or that he thinks gets his point across the best to the human reader." Will the new AI editor change it to "What the robots can do for the writer is offer many ways to phrase something and then let THEM select that which fits THEIR style or that THEM thinks gets THEIR point across the best to the human reader."
Added bonus is the now unnecessary human grammar ronin might strap C4 to herself and walk into the lobby of the local Karen Times newspaper and . . .