A new ‘tone detector’ from Grammarly promises to save us from causing unintentional offence. How else might it impact our language?
On the first episode of the final season of HBO comedy series Silicon Valley, tech startup engineer Bertram Gilfoyle lets an AI version of himself take over his instant messaging duties. “Do you need the real me for this conversation?” he asks his colleague.
It may sound extreme, but the existence of spellcheckers predates the personal computer by a decade. Since 1992, grammar checking has also come as standard in word processors. For the better part of a generation, we’ve been OK with robots watching and correcting our language, occasional run-ins with Clippy aside.
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