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Clearly the way forward is to teach the students how to do:

"... the kind of tweaking you see me doing above, tweaking which I can do because I possess a relatively sophisticated understanding of narrative craft and know what to tell the AI to do"

This will likely entail teaching them how to do the job without the use of the AI (as was always the case). (The same applies to software development [which is just a different form of writing]).

Business don't know what they invest in. They hire a software professional to produce software. It's up to her to use the best techniques to do so.

The problem with this logic is that most definitely "popularity" is already proxied by some data that they are collecting and thus could be acted upon by the machines. So either Google are poor coders or this is something different than popularity.

That all comes down to how well-designed the API is. Not all APIs are created equal but in the hands of a skilled designer, this functionality is priceless. Not only that but you can also look at the actual values to tease apart any meanings that seem ambiguous (but, once again, in the hands of a good designer those won't exist in the first place).

Would be nice to have an actual y-axis on those charts. No way to tell the difference between near zero and zero for the various schools.

Since Assange has already been indicted, there isn’t much sense in collecting additional evidence from Manning.

This reasoning does not make sense. The bar for indictment is not "100% of all available evidence must have been collected". One can and should collect (and subsequently present) additional evidence until the closing arguments are presented. No case is ever a "sure thing". One is wise to continue to reinforce it throughout the entire process.

Yes, I know that. However, they don't need to be exhaustive. They are very effective at uncovering any bugs using a statistical approach at even very reasonable levels of iteration. And nothing precludes you from running them 24/7 in the cloud.

I wouldn't say using a "unit test" is ever really a viable option for me. Property-based tests subsume unit tests.