As it now stands, the tool helps good writers but "really doesn't help bad writers at all," he said.
Well, maybe bad writers should find another profession or take classes that help them improve.
So computers should help everyone become Stephen King or John Grisham? (These are just examples of popular authors, there are many other great authors that I just couldn't think of right now).
I guess this professor has never talked with a linguist, let alone a computational linguist. Maybe when the professors who understand human linguistics figure out the universal grammar and can apply it to American English, then we might see something out of academia that comes close to what they are asking. But MSFT should not have the complete burden of doing this. I mean even Noam Chomsky (the father of modern linguistic theory) hasn't done what this guy is asking.
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As it now stands, the tool helps good writers but "really doesn't help bad writers at all," he said.
Well, maybe bad writers should find another profession or take classes that help them improve.
So computers should help everyone become Stephen King or John Grisham? (These are just examples of popular authors, there are many other great authors that I just couldn't think of right now).
I guess this professor has never talked with a linguist, let alone a computational linguist. Maybe when the professors who understand human linguistics figure out the universal grammar and can apply it to American English, then we might see something out of academia that comes close to what they are asking. But MSFT should not have the complete burden of doing this. I mean even Noam Chomsky (the father of modern linguistic theory) hasn't done what this guy is asking.