If 2Pac was only allowed to release music under the pretence that his style was to match the Queen’s English, the world would have been a significantly worse place.

The advent of Style transfer (the ability to project a style of one text to another) means that it’s now possible for a Neural Network to change the feel of a text.

As you can probably guess, the application of this technology would make it useful in a number of different settings. A simple first application would be to make an article sound more formal:

_Informal _: I’d say it is punk though.

Formal_ : However, I do believe it to be punk._

but even further from this, this technology could be used to help people with problems like dyslexia.

More recently, the news that Microsoft was laying off journalists wasn’t groundbreaking news: advertising revenues are down across the board and newspapers are generally struggling to be as profitable as they were before (which was already a bit of a struggle). However, the news that they were to replace this team with AI is what startled people.

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