Romance Novels and Human Intelligence | Matt Langione | JSTOR Daily | 10th August 2016

Google is feeding thousands of romance novels to its natural language algorithm in an effort to “humanise” the “conversational tone”. The decision points to a “recovered interest” among technology companies in developing artificial intelligence platforms that move easily beyond formal logic to appear more general and more anthropic. There is still a long way to go. The test is not that an AI can read a romance novel, but that it can read one “with delight or disdain”