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Don’t throw out the keyboard in the AI revolution
Writing is thinking. To outsource it to bots is to put your brain on the bench.
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Even the most mundane writing on the keyboard keeps you thinking, something that is at risk with "AI-assisted articulation", says the writer.
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Dave Lee
There seems to be a growing view that the computer keyboard is on the way out. Demoted, at least, as the primary method of input at work.
Ms Kate Clark, writing in The Wall Street Journal, looked at the trend of tech start-up employees using AI dictation software to turn “rambling” streams of consciousness into “coherent, usable text in seconds”.
