Automated essay/literature review writing?

Question

Does the technology exist to write an essay automatically by inputting the relevant literature and getting it to spew out an essay?

PS: anyone see the monkey with the robot arms? crazy

Answer 1

youre lazy thats the problem..

Answer 2

Cliff Notes.

Copy and paste.

lol

If you're just feeling lazy, try DragonSpeak. My dad's the creator. It's like a Ferbie for Microsoft Word is how he explains it ^.^

Otherwise hire somebody to write it for you.

What monkey?

Answer 3

Technology exists to perform some analyses on the text of technical articles.  An example is what Google does to decide how relevant a particular article is to your query.  Another is citation counts, considering an article more important if many other articles cite it as a reference.  I don't know if has been done yet, but straightforward extensions of this technology could analyze an article and find the top hundred articles most closely related to it by keyword analysis.

But there has been no success in having a computer understand an article and the concepts behind it, or composing a creative expression.  Perhaps in a few more decades they'll do it well enough to fool a casual reader.  Meanwhile, you'll need to do your own homework ...