(NYT) – Wispr Flow is supposed to make writing effortless and magical. So I “wrote” this column with it.

I’m looking at the paragraphs above and I’m really itching to edit them. A lot of these sentences are bad. But the whole point of Wispr Flow is that you don’t edit. You speak naturally and organically. You CAN double back in your speech. For instance, you can say to Wispr Flow, “Delete that last word,” and it will do it for you pretty seamlessly. But you can’t tell it to take this sentence and put it there, or to go back and change that preposition above, or to reorder some of your paragraphs so that the argument has a more logical flow. You can’t tell it to make you sound smarter, or at least not yet. (Note from this story’s editor: The magazine has made light tweaks out of pity for the reader and writer alike. Also, our writers do not use A.I. tools to write articles except when specifically testing them for articles about such technology.) (Read More)