AI only knows what it has been taught. It only works on well-defined problems. It can learn games and use the computational power humans lack to find better solutions. Feed it enough artworks by an artist and it can produce New art mimicking the artist. Humans can do that, too: a composer learned all of Mozart 's music and writes music that sounds like Mozart.

In none of these cases did AI do anything truly original. It did not create a game. It can't determine whether it needs more information. It can't ask why. An excellent example of this is how autonomous vehicles have been confused by traffic signs and people. They are trained to recognize a stop sign, for example, but have been confused by damaged signs. A human knows that a stop sign is a red octagon and can recognize it even when it has been damaged. AVs get confused by a sticker on a sign because it has only been trained on intact signs. It can't form the concepts humans use. People are unpredictable and constantly break AI predictions, which can cause deaths.

Taking this into account, AI can generate news articles for a reader based on his interests. However, it minimal ability to recommend important and unimportant news that the reader might find interesting. It's this last but that makes believe that AI will have minimal effects on an authorship blockchain. An account may produce regular news digests, but will never produce anything truly original.

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