Writer's block? Get a robot to write instead

Writer's block? Get a robot to write instead
David Chaplin
The ACC computer said 'no', knocking back my claim for two years’ fully paid time off to recuperate. Writer’s block, apparently, is not one of the ‘gradual process conditions’ covered by the no-fault national injury insurer.An appeal has been lodged. But, in the interim, this column has been outsourced to the new robot report-writing service launched last week by the global investment research house, Morningstar.First, a test: one of these sentences was the product of a fatigued, thoroughly bored, human; the...

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