At the end, she would say, “Thank you, Adam.” In private, she told me she thought we were at a momentous turn, when an artificial mind could make a significant contribution to literature. I said, “Haikus, perhaps. But longer poems, novels, plays, forget it. Transcribing human experience into words and the words into aesthetic structures isn’t possible for a machine.” She gave me a sceptical look. “Who said anything about human experience?”
