Can an AI bot write technical documents?

[Laura Lemay]

Lauren wrote :
> So now I wonder, if an AI bot could perform basic technical writing tasks.
> Like if information from a work flow was given to a bot, can the bot piece
> the information together in a reasonably intelligent way so that the work
> would really only require editing by a person? At least for some pieces of
> the documentation anyway.

In the project I'm working on right now the engineers use a tool called 
GhostDoc to insert API documentation comments in C# code from inside 
VisualStudio.  GhostDoc uses the method and parameter names to generate 
passable english doc comments.

The GhostDoc tool, of course, relies on decent method and parameter 
naming conventions in the first place.  And the documentation it 
generates is by no means complete;  all of it is of the "SetColor:  sets 
the color"  grade of usefulness, eg, not all that useful.  But I've 
known plenty of API tech writers who wrote docs to that level of 
quality, and as a first pass on a project with not a lot of writer 
resources, its surprisingly good.

The bots are already here.

http://www.roland-weigelt.de/ghostdoc/

Laura
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