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Over the past decade or two, we have seen people attempt to code programs that wrote like a human. And they failed miserably. Oftentimes, in an epic manner.
These days, though, these same programs are getting so good that they are not only readable, they sound good enough to have been composed by a halfway-decent high school student. Don't believe me? Check out the baseball and softball coverage from the Big Ten Network, a joint venture between the Big Ten and Fox Cable. Believe it or not, all their website coverage for the two sports are now updated solely by machines. All that people do is input stats and the program writes the piece that people end up reading.
No, they're not crappy, spam-sounding piles of impossible-to-understand text either. Check out this sample taken from the website: "Michigan held off Iowa for a 7-5 win on Saturday. The Hawkeyes (16-21) were unable to overcome a four-run sixth inning deficit. The Hawkeyes clawed back in the eighth inning, putting up one run."
Yes, it is sports and the writing can be formulaic. However, this hints at the possible future of news reporting. After all, many types of news writing can be drilled down by algorithms. How do you think the best writing software evaluates you work? It uses similar code.
Whether you think it's a good thing or a bad thing, fact is: machine writers are coming. Who knows, maybe your children's children won't have to slave through high school writing essays anymore?
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