Contributing columnist

Like everyone else, I’m curious about what the new artificial intelligence (AI) programs can do for us, or perhaps to us.

So in an idle hour recently, I decided to experiment. This is what happens when you have too much time on your hands.

For whom the AI tolls?

For starters, as a lifelong reader, I wanted to see how AI might capture the style and content of some of my favorite writers. So I asked Google’s AI program to write me 50 words on taking a bus in Detroit in the style of Ernest Hemingway. Here’s what it came up with:

The bus came, late as always. The street was wet. Men waited. Women too. They stood in the grey light. The air was cold, but no one shivered. They rode the bus to work, to wherever they needed to go. It was their way. No one talked much. Th

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