New Non Fiction :: Except Where Clearly Noted. . .

Posted on by Gary A Wilson in Coffee Share, garyawilsonstories

Today I’m announcing a new piece of non-fiction, an unusual essay about how I had a conversation with a real AI and asked it to create a story.

In this essay, I chose to let the AI represent itself as together we caused a new story to emerge from our combined minds.  In this way, I think you’ll learn more about what an AI can do. I found it incredibly eye-opening.
Technical or not, you need to know about this.

Click here to read: Except Where Clearly Noted

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7 thoughts on “New Non Fiction :: Except Where Clearly Noted. . .”

  1. Interesting experiment. The story is good, well written but I sense something missing here. Maybe because you told us that an AI created it. Or perhaps because it reads like many other stories with a similar theme.

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    1. Right Sadje.
      I thought it was an amazing creation for the time and input I provided, details and instructive but it did feel sterile somehow. Like when I read your work or almost anyone else’s that I know. I can hear and recognize their voice through their words. With the AI – I sense only that I’m recognizing a pattern, a macro envelope that contains the story.
      I wonder if this is what my writing felt like when I was young and trying to write as my teachers were attempting to teach me.
      I think there are more discoveries to be revealed.
      Have you tried it? I think you would love playing with it.

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      1. I haven’t, and to me it feels like a waste of my time for I already spend too much time on my blog. Besides it good for an experiment, but what will I do with it afterwards?

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      2. Ha – I understand Sadje. While it certainly can help with blog research, I like it so far for easy research. I’ve always wanted to know more about cosmic radiation because of my interest in scifi stories and this is a reality with space travel and almost any other environment outside of Earth’s atmosphere. I’ve googled lots of related terms looking for information that was at my level of understanding – but have struggled to get past the thousands of links offered by google and other search engines. I decided to give the request to chatGPT and was blown away both by how fast it found and gave me exactly what I was looking for, with no ads or piles of sponsored links. I had and understood my answer in less than 3 minutes. Other than topics that depend on near-real-time data, like movie schedules or weather reports, this is a remarkable tool. Because it’s AI – it will find use all over the place in a variety of forms.
        I think we need to at least have a working understanding of it. My latest concerns rest on the idea of how we should use it in creative writing. I don’t want this thing to write mine, but if nothing else, writers and authors now have a creepy new form of competition. That AI can be such a compelling author when give very limited details as a prompt – introduces all kinds of concerns from school term papers to fully artificial authors of bulk non-fiction or even full fictional stories.
        Thanks for engaging the question with me. I’ve concluded that your opinion on just about anything is always going to be a perspective I should pay attention to. I think you have a great mind.
        Blessings my friend.

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      3. Thank Gary. I hadn’t thought of using it for research. That maybe an option I’d explore. But yes, it is dangerous when kids and college students have access to it and that can really harm their education if the resort to using it.

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      4. agreed Sadje. There are new grounds here and we all are going to need to develop discipline in how we use it.
        I recall all the arguments we had with ourselves as students of electrical engineering students in 1974 about the pros and cons of using hand-held calculators instead of slide rules. I’d only just discovered a love for using a slide rule when we heard that the college was considering if it was time to allow calculators.
        The economics of using them simply could not be denied despite all the good reasons for using my precision bamboo sticks.

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      5. Yes the new technology is always a challenge for the academia! We used to get this little booklet to look up the sine/ cosine/ theta in geometry exams.

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