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Bookmark AI trained on AI churns out gibberish garbage | Popular Science
Large language models like those offered by OpenAI and Google famously require vast troves of training data to work. The latest versions of these models have already scoured much of the…

July 30 2024, 9:32am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Critical reviews/writing on Tears of the Kingdom So, we all love the latest Zelda game (Tears of the Kingdom - TOTK), and so do the critics. But now that we and the game journalists all have hundreds of hours of playtime under our belts, have any thoughtful, well written critical…

June 12 2023, 6:21am | Comments
Bookmark Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay? - The Atlantic
Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia. Suppose you are a professor of pedagogy, and you assign an essay on learning styles. A student hands in an essay with…

December 12 2022, 6:53am | Comments
Bookmark Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay? - The Atlantic
Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia. Suppose you are a professor of pedagogy, and you assign an essay on learning styles. A student hands in an essay with…

December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Bookmark ChatGPT proves AI is finally mainstream — and things are only going to get…
A friend of mine texted me earlier this week to ask what I thought of ChatGPT. I wasn’t surprised he was curious. He knows I write about AI and is the…

December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Bookmark ChatGPT Will End High-School English - The Atlantic
I’ve been teaching English for 12 years, and I’m astounded by what ChatGPT can produce. Teenagers have always found ways around doing the hard work of actual learning.

December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Bookmark AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators | McKinsey
Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will. Sunspring debuted at the SCI-FI LONDON film festival in 2016.

October 1 2022, 9:51am | Comments
Bookmark AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators | McKinsey
Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will. Sunspring debuted at the SCI-FI LONDON film festival in 2016.

October 1 2022, 5:51am | Comments
Bookmark How independent writers are turning to AI
On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series about a detective witch in central Florida, and…

July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark How independent writers are turning to AI
On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series about a detective witch in central Florida, and…

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Portfolio WHY I WANT TO FUCK ELON MUSK

November 26 2021, 2:06am | Comments
Bookmark Octavia Estelle Butler: Notetaking as Science Fiction - Forte Labs
Octavia Estelle Butler was born in 1947 in Pasadena, CA. Known in her early years as “Estelle,” she was raised by a single, widowed mother who worked domestic jobs to make…

September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark Writing In An Age Of Artificial Intelligence (AI) | The Creative Penn
In this solo episode, I discuss the impact of converging technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Generation (NLG) tools like GPT-3, and more on writing, authors, and the publishing industry.

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Writing fiction as scholarly work | Impact of Social Sciences
Writing for academic publication is highly stylised and formalised. In this post Rob Kitchin describes how writing fiction has shaped his own academic praxis and can provide scholars with an expanded range of…

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Podcast Cache The AI-Augmented Author. Writing With GPT-3 With Paul Bellow | The Creative…
How can authors use AI writing tools like GPT-3? What's the best way to prompt the models to output usable text? Are there copyright issues with this approach? Author Paul Bellow explains how he is using the tools…

June 26 2021, 9:35am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Links and Resources for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers |…
Useful Resources for F&SF; Writers: Awards Posts for F&SF; Writers Book Recommendations for F&SF; Writers: Craft Essays for F&SF; Writers Career-focused Essays for F&SF; Writers Story Prompts for F&SF; Writers #sfwapro

September 2 2019, 7:59am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Dark deconstructions of children's TV shows/characters? I've read fantastic, dark - often very political analyses - of TV shows like Thomas the Tank Engine, Teletubbies, Mr.Blobby, and Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch.... but I'd like to find some more. What other dystopian, playful, surreal, philosophical, deconstructive readings of kid's…

August 18 2019, 8:47am | Comments
Bookmark BBC - Future - The world's most prolific writer is a Chinese…
“Inflatable duck baby pool with canopy.” “Hot selling colourful temporary full arm tattoo for men.” “Splendid reusable dog pee pad (minimum order: 500).

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators | McKinsey & Company
Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will. Sunspring debuted at the SCI-FI LONDON film festival in 2016.

December 13 2017, 4:26am | Comments
Bookmark Ursula K. Le Guin Explains How to Build a New Kind of…
By Ursula K. Le Guin These are some thoughts about utopia and dystopia. The old, crude Good Places were compensatory visions of controlling what you couldn’t control and having what you…

December 6 2017, 10:19pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache Writing and Digital Media «
{I was invited to teach a seminar at City College’s MFA program in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice. This is the syllabus for the course I came up with.

July 30 2017, 9:24pm | Comments
Bookmark Writing and Digital Media «
{I was invited to teach a seminar at City College’s MFA program in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice. This is the syllabus for the course I came up with.

July 30 2017, 9:24pm | Comments
Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments
Bookmark Posthumanities: The Dark Side of “The Dark Side of the Digital”
In What Is Posthumanism? Cary Wolfe insists “the nature of thought itself must change if it is to be posthumanist.

June 28 2017, 3:07am | Comments
Bookmark How philosophy came to disdain the wisdom of oral cultures | Aeon…
A poet, somewhere in Siberia, or the Balkans, or West Africa, some time in the past 60,000 years, recites thousands of memorised lines in the course of an evening. The lines…

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark Books after the Death of the Book | Public Books
Last summer I decided to assign Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects in the graduate course I was getting ready to teach.

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments
Projects HOLO 2: Results May Vary (contribution)

December 9 2016, 2:04am | Comments
Bookmark Transrealism: the first major literary movement of the 21st century? | Books…
It’s not science fiction, it’s not realism, but hovers in the unsettling zone in between. From Philip K Dick to Stephen King, Damien Walter takes a tour through transrealism, the emerging…

July 17 2016, 4:33am | Comments
Bookmark Modest Witness: A Painter's Collaboration with Donna Haraway
When I read Donna Haraway's Manifesto for Cyborgs in 1989, I was intrigued and inspired. Here was a piece that resonated with my political, feminist and moral values.

June 20 2016, 1:21am | Comments
Bookmark The Materiality of Research: ‘On the Materiality of Writing in Academia or…
In this feature essay, Ninna Meier reflects on the materiality of the writing – and re-writing – process in academic research.

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Bookmark A Brief History of Books That Do Not Exist | Literary Hub
I love books that exist almost as much as I love books that don’t exist. So I have written some books, The Seas, The Invention of Everything Else and Mr. Splitfoot,…

January 9 2016, 8:10am | Comments

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