Go straight back to vacation, do not pass Go: Autoblogger software???

So first morning back from vacation. Am fresh and eager to tackle the world once again.

So our friend and fellow blogger Kerry Woo reports on a fascinating development, building on the theme of an earlier post here, that there is now sofware to write simple business stories better and faster than humans.

So now there is something called Autoblogger. It reads your blog, learns your writing style - and subject matter - and then generates new blog copy based on your style.

Welcome back from vacation Tomi and Alan. Now go staight back to vacation. Autoblogger will eliminate the boring tasks of maintaining a daily blog.

I am both fascinated and horrified. Yes, I love new technology, and yes, of course I recognise new developments almost always produce some employment impacts (and mostly also some unemployment in older industries that are affected). But come on. Creative writing?

But sure enough. Should have seen this coming... Nothing is sacred. And yes, like you said Kerry, it is directly linked to the story about business articles written by robotic software.

Oh, I want to quote directly from Kerry's Woo's blogsite - Wanderdawg 777 - at this link:

http://wonderdawg777.blogspot.com/2006/08/robot-journalists.html

What is AutoBlogger?

AutoBlogger is a powerful content-authoring software tool designed for online columnists and bloggers. Upon installation, AutoBlogger uses a sophisticated Artificial Intelligence algorithm to 'read' the public entries of your journal/blog to triangulate a sense of your writing style. From that point forward, any time you hit a writer's block, want to take a vacation, or simply wish to step away from your computer for a few days, AutoBlogger can be set to take over, using what it has learned about your posting and writing patterns to author original content in a voice consistent with your existing prose.

AutoBlogger frees the busy blogger to a life outside computers, by giving your readers the impression you are constantly online.

Ha-ha. Wonderful story. Thanks Kerry!!

Well the technologist in me of COURSE wants to try that software out. Maybe it will also write our next books for us too.

Comments

[GrahamHill]

Alan

Maybe it would pass the Turing Test for the simple, to the point prose found in the majority of quarterly press releases, but I would be most suprised if it would for the complex creative stuff where the human mind excels.

I don't think you should go back on perma-holiday quite yet.

Graham Hill

[alan moore]

Hi there Graham,

Tomi made the post so you need in this instance to direct your question at him.

Thanks for commenting anyway :-)

Kind regards

Alan

[Kerry Woo]

Wishful thinking! You do realize that Auto Blogger is tongue in cheek right?