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Can you write better than a robot?

An article written by artificial intelligence - and pieced together by people - makes an unsettling observation on human weakness

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"A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?" read the headline of a Guardian opinion article published last Tuesday.

What writer wouldn't be curious, with all the talk about artificial intelligence and how it could some day take our jobs?

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on September 13, 2020, with the headline Can you write better than a robot?. Subscribe