The Rise of the Robot Writers?

Do AI writing programs have anything to offer fiction writers?

Bios writing robot, photo by Mirko Tobias Schaefer

Last month, an artist I know called me with a mix of panic and excitement. They’d seen the tests of a new AI art generator called DALL-E (get it? Wall-E meets Dalí?) and said it was a “complete game changer.” That it would, in a few years time, completely change how visual artists create art. It wasn’t a…