It occurs to me that most of my posts in the past month have either been extremely doom-and-gloom, or they’ve been excerpts from some of my most recent work. This probably gives the impression that I’m huddled in a corner somewhere, black-pilled and traumatized, and seeking some sort of an escape through my writing, when… Continue reading Back from Coeur d’Alene
Tag: artificial intelligence
Why I’m not worried about AI replacing writers
So machine learning artificial intelligence has really been blowing up this past month, probably because of ChatGPT and all of the fascinating things that people are doing with it. I’ve been getting into it myself, using it to help write or improve my book descriptions, and also experimenting with it for writing stories. At this… Continue reading Why I’m not worried about AI replacing writers
My first attempt to write a short story with Chat GPT
[TL;DR: I didn’t get past the prewriting stage, because the AI’s safeguards forbid it from writing honestly about certain themes. My goal was to feed it the first 2k words of a story fragment and see how it finished the story, but if the theme of the story itself is verbotten, I don’t see how… Continue reading My first attempt to write a short story with Chat GPT
September Shorts 2022: Hunter, Lover, Cyborg, Slave
Whenever I do these short story challenges, the first one always feels like it’s super hard, and I end up spending way more time on it than I thought I would. It also usually ends up a lot longer than I would like. Hopefully the rest of them come faster and easier than this one… Continue reading September Shorts 2022: Hunter, Lover, Cyborg, Slave
The technological singularity: a thing of the past?
One of the latest trends in science fiction is the concept of the technological singularity — the point in history at which technological advances occur so rapidly that we can no longer learn the new stuff fast enough to keep up with it. I hear a lot of people talk about this at cons, and… Continue reading The technological singularity: a thing of the past?