The next wave of computer engineering is going to involve writers, especially poets and novelists, some observers of Silicon Valley to The Washington Post. As the Post’s Elizabeth Dwoskin puts it:
“Behind Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana are not just software engineers. Increasingly, there are poets, comedians, fiction writers, and other artistic types charged with engineering the personalities for a fast-growing crop of artificial intelligence tools.”
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