How I used AI to write a business plan

AI employees are already fairly prevalent around us. Chatbot customer service reps, content recommendation algorithms, spam filters — they are literally doing the jobs that would take tens of millions of people to do. We don’t get mad at Google for using AI spam filters, for the same reason we don’t get mad at Ford for making engines that do the jobs of millions of horses. But what about AI writers? Will text generators such as Talk to Transformer and GPT-2 by OpenAI change this AI employee conundrum?

That’s why I tested the value of an AI employee in the writer role.

My Cofounder, Talk to Transformer

In the past, I’ve played around with Talk to Transformer (the text generator created on OpenAI GPT-2) for fun. Mostly my experiments consisted of making funny one-liners. But I’d never thought about actually working with the tool to string together a larger piece of writing.

So I momentarily hired Talk to Transformer to help me write a business plan. And this is what it created: