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adjl posted...

Not with the current paradigm, which is to study examples of existing writing and recombine it to create something passable. Fundamentally, it can't create anything new or better than what already exists.

This is where I have my doubts. Just consider current chess AI. They're capable of identifying certain lines that no human could ever come up with, and that's because of their raw computational power. Think of how many hours a person has to invest to become an expert in something. A computer can completely eliminate that time component. I'm talking beyond writing here, but say we were trying to create a new kind of technology. Scientists would ordinarily have to resort to trial and error. But if an AI had a full understanding of physics (at least within the scope of what we understand) it could process millions of variations in just a brief moment.

So in some ways, I think future AI will be able to produce outputs that exceed human capability.