AI cannot write good

As I was watching the news a report came on about a very sad event in Rotterdam, and this sparked a chain of thought about AI writing stories. 

On the screen was a picture of somewhere in Rotterdam where the tragedy had taken place, and I thought, that could be anywhere. It could be Liverpool, or Rome. Now I'm guessing that about half of you will get that reference, and please accept my apologies for the ear worm. 

But an AI reading that won't get it and will learn nothing about writing from reading it. And even if it were explained to the AI, the AI has no life experiences to draw on to write anything original.

And the difference between good writing and great writing, (which doesn't include my humble ranting), is that so much of it is not understood by every reader. Indeed very few readers will get all the connections the author makes. You can read the same book years later and have a very different understanding of it. You can enjoy the book without getting any of the references, but it's the depth which effects every reader differently that turns a good read into a great one.

Oh, and for those of you who didn't get it, Rotterdam is a song by The Beautiful South on their 1996 album, Blue is the Colour.

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