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Narrative skill is often overlooked even in people.

1) The kind died, then the queen died of a broken hard.

2) The king died, then the queen died.

3) The kind died, then the queen died of a broken arm.

One is a story, two is not, three is written by AI.

I mean, at least spend the 60 seconds or less it takes to check spelling. You can tell all the above was written by a human.

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In Imaginary Magnitude Lem provides the introduction (or perhaps foreword, I don't remember) to a work on Bitics, machine literature. IIRC typographical errors are where it begins. Now, of course Lem is writing fiction (even if the fiction purports to be a scholarly work about an imaginary topic) and there's no reason our world should proceed as Lem imagines, but equally there is no reason to rule it out either.

I laughed That said, like any other skill, there will be a day when AI actually surpasses humans at it. Moravec and Tegmark convinced me of it. (The prelude to Tegmark's fascinating LIFE 3.0 is online: https://www.marketingfirst.co.nz/storage/2018/06/prelude-lif...)

PS: I laughed more from the xkcd link posted before by u/ignoranceprior https://xkcd.com/1263/

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