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, with a fourth book on the way, I hear).<\/p>\nIntuit’s Max Deutsch fed the seven Harry Potter books to a computer and told it to write a new chapter<\/a>. It did. It came out as gibberish.<\/p>\n However, it isn’t just random gibberish. When you read the new text, you can see that the dialog for each character is styled somewhat like Rowling’s original characters. The fact that a large number of the sentences make no sense at all, and that many are agrammatical, kinda ruins the flow. It might have been a good idea to run the output from this computer through a grammar checker.<\/p>\n And, of course, other than the random novelty one gets when flipping coins, there is nothing new, no interesting plot elements, new characters, or novel magical tropes in this new text.<\/p>\n Here is an example:<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s cheer to their advantage,\u201d Moody retorted suddenly.<\/p>\n \u201cSorry,\u201d Harry shouted, panicking?\u2014?\u201cI\u2019ll leave those brooms in London, are they?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo idea,\u201d said Nearly Headless Nick, casting low close by Cedric, carrying the last bit of treacle Charms, from Harry\u2019s shoulder, and to answer him the common room perched upon it, four arms held a shining knob from when the spider hadn\u2019t felt it seemed. He reached the teams too.<\/p>\n \u201cYou believe if we\u2019ve got friendly to come down and out of the library. I think I\u2019ve found out Potter, I asked you he had . . . me. I think he\u2019s not telling Dobby if yeh get with our Hogwarts \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat are you doing, Harry?\u201d said Hermione, staring down at her. \u201cWould Malfoy let me easier?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cProfessor Karkaroff slipped down the steps to get the second row of silver hair?\u201d<\/p>\n Harry stared at the shadowy clearing, and pointing to a long, old grin. But she had been many times more like having cards, standing all around and began to sob down the steps over the brakes and Control of Magical Creatures class just pushed with gold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I think J.K. Rowling gets to keep her job for a while longer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not yet. As you know, JK Rowling is the author of the famous Harry Potter series of books (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, etc.), and more recently, of a series of really excellent crime novels (if you’ve not read them, you need to: The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm, and Career of Evil, with a … Continue reading Can a computer replace J.K. Rowling?<\/span>