Existing AI tools are pretty good at identifying stylistic problems like overuse of words or when a sentence is written in passive voice. Such tools are capable of making style suggestions, although the types of problems they identify remain limited. These days, automated grammar checking tools are getting better at understanding how to parse and correct a variety of errors thanks to machine learning. Over time, they began to rely on syntactic analysis, which is what tools like Grammarly and Microsoft Word use today to parse sentences and detect grammatical errors.
Grammar checking tools have developed in a similar manner. Microsoft Word and Google Docs use versions of these programs. This meant that spell checkers could tell when a writer used the wrong word more frequently than in the past (too/to/two, for example). Early spell checkers used a list of words to check documents for mistakes, but by the 1990s it was common for spell checking tools to be able to understand context.
The first spell checking program was actually developed in 1961 back at Stanford. Grammar and spell check programs have been with us as long as computer word processing tools. So, is AI set to overtake the role of humans in the editing process? These include stylistic and developmental edits and contextual editing, particularly for specialized topics. However, there are still many tasks that human editors can perform that AI either cannot perform at all or cannot perform well. It is true that natural language processing (NLP) has helped AI develop significantly in the past several decades. While editing provided by humans is still very much a thriving industry today, AI writing tools have begun to do a lot of work that was done by humans in the past. This was both labor-intensive and took a great deal of time. In the past, writers have had to spend hours with a dictionary and grammar guides trying to find mistakes in their own work or employ human editors to review their writing. Academics, students, and researchers in particular must know how to write clearly so that their ideas can be understood, shared, and discussed. Writing has become a skill that is necessary for many professions.
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