“We used to use our culture to understand cancer. Now we use cancer to understand our culture.” (From NPR interview of Pulitzer Prize winning author of “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of ...

This past year, a computer scientist named Tuhin Chakrabarty tried to coax artificial intelligence into producing great writing. Chakrabarty, who had recently completed a Ph.D. at Columbia University, ...

But what if the biggest giveaway that a text was written by AI isn’t a word, phrase, or punctuation mark, but a particular sentence structure instead? The idea that certain rhythms of sentences might ...