CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Prologue: Human Writers Meet the AI Language Sausage Machine ix
4. Part I: Writing Lessons
5. 1. The Journey to Literacy 1
6. 2. Why Humans Write—and Rewrite 15
7. 3. English Comp and Its Aftermath 30
8. Part II: What If Machines Could Write?
9. 4. The Dream of Language Machines 49
10. 5. The Natural Language Processing Sausage Machine 66
11. 6. Machine Translation Rises Again 81
12. Part III: When Computers Write
13. 7. Machines Emerge as Authors 99
14. 8. AI Comes for the Writing Professions 112
15. 9. The Creative Side of AI 133
16. Part IV: When Computers Collaborate
17. 10. AI as Jeeves 157
18. 11. Human–AI Symbiosis 177
19. 12. Do We Always Welcome AI? 191
20. Coda: Why Human Authorship Matters 213
21. Main Characters 237
22. Acknowledgments 247
23. Notes 251
24. References 269
25. Index 301