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  1. Mar 2021
    1. I am in awe of its surreal genius – it certainly beats Wired’s attempt to write a science fiction story with an algorithm, later rejected by an editor for not sounding “human”. I’m not sure Botnik sounds particularly human either – but I know I’d like to meet it.

      the author closes the article by their subjective conclusion

    2. “We use computational tools to create strange new things,” says the company on its website. “We would like, selfishly, not to replace humanity with algorithms. instead, we want to find natural ways for people and machines to interact to create what neither would have created alone.”

      Citing primary source, and explaining that the company is not looking into replacing people by AI, but looks into ways how AI could be used - the potential and limitations of AI

    3. As this New Statesman feature says, the results are: “at once faintly recognisable and completely absurd.”

      An onjective viewpoint (quoted from primary source), constructively admitting that even though the style is recognisable as 'Harry Potter-esque' it is absurd, and would not pass as a 'real' chapter', as it is absurd

    4. Botnik describes itself as “a human-machine entertainment studio and writing community”, with members including former Clickhole head writer Jamie Brew, and former New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff. The predictive text keyboard is its first writing tool – it works, Botnik explains, by analysing a body of text “to find combinations of words likely to follow each other” based on the grammar and vocabulary used. As this New Statesman feature says, the results are: “at once faintly recognisable and completely absurd.”

      an expansion on what is Botnik, and how it works, backed up and quoted from a credible primary source.

    5. on, after a predictive keyboard wrote a new Harry Potter story using her books and it became the funniest thing on the internet.

      this is author's subjective view on the matter, as the phrase 'funniest thing on the internet' provides no hyperlink to any critics' website or such

    6. After being fed all seven Potter tales, a predictive keyboard has produced a tale that veers from almost genuine to gloriously bonkers

      Author expands on the title, now we know what dataset was provided to AI and how extensive it was; moreover, we can determine that the article is going to be rather light-hearted, according to the vocab author is using e.g.:'gloriously bonkers'