Humanity is collectively dumb. We are destroying our home (Earth) while we create technology that hurts more than helps (i.e. social media). We have traded community for this modern landscape and in the United States at least, life expectancy is on the decline. That is dumb of us!
Driving into work today I felt a visceral desire to stay home and garden all day and grow my own food. (This was a random intuition from my body; perhaps a romanticized desire as ‘farming the land’ might not be all fun and games.) I was dreading sitting in my desk chair all day. I enjoy my work; I hate all the sitting. I wonder if in the future we will return to communal living in order to survive ourselves in which we have the gardeners, the poets/storytellers, the blacksmiths, the healers in a tribe.
Also, humans love collective panic. Every generation has had its own things to panic about. And there is a lot of panic about AI. It will be interesting to see what plays out in the next year, two years, and ten years.
One thing I like as a reader is getting to know different writers. Right now, I’m getting to know Richard Powers and Chimamanda Adichie. Each novel is another aspect of them, where they are from, and how they see the world and relate to history. We like getting to know people and that is a visceral body experience. Could AI replace that experience?
Adichie is a feminist and her writing seeks to liberate the female body or the feminine energy in the world. It is a visceral goal. AI looks backward at data, will it be good at looking forward?
There is a lot more to think about here I am looking forward to the rest of the speech.
Brilliantly written and your footnote was delightfully amusing and well stated. Irony. Humor. Because anything we write these days someone is bound to suggest an AI was used...
There clearly is something in the air.... I found your thoughts on AI and consciousness particularly interesting. Maybe it's the brain tricking us into thinking we have consciousness but then that sort of assumes the brain is somehow outside of us, doesn't it?
That was the introduction. Ultimately, I’m going to talk about the body and the human viscera in relation to Creative Writing, which echoes some of the points you made in your post about surprises and intuition. One thing LLMs will never do is be working on something else and suddenly —pop!—- an idea comes out of nowhere and they follow it and write an unexpected poem or story. This always happens to writers. We could be washing dishes and —pop! -beauty visits us.
Humanity is collectively dumb. We are destroying our home (Earth) while we create technology that hurts more than helps (i.e. social media). We have traded community for this modern landscape and in the United States at least, life expectancy is on the decline. That is dumb of us!
Driving into work today I felt a visceral desire to stay home and garden all day and grow my own food. (This was a random intuition from my body; perhaps a romanticized desire as ‘farming the land’ might not be all fun and games.) I was dreading sitting in my desk chair all day. I enjoy my work; I hate all the sitting. I wonder if in the future we will return to communal living in order to survive ourselves in which we have the gardeners, the poets/storytellers, the blacksmiths, the healers in a tribe.
Also, humans love collective panic. Every generation has had its own things to panic about. And there is a lot of panic about AI. It will be interesting to see what plays out in the next year, two years, and ten years.
One thing I like as a reader is getting to know different writers. Right now, I’m getting to know Richard Powers and Chimamanda Adichie. Each novel is another aspect of them, where they are from, and how they see the world and relate to history. We like getting to know people and that is a visceral body experience. Could AI replace that experience?
Adichie is a feminist and her writing seeks to liberate the female body or the feminine energy in the world. It is a visceral goal. AI looks backward at data, will it be good at looking forward?
There is a lot more to think about here I am looking forward to the rest of the speech.
Brilliantly written and your footnote was delightfully amusing and well stated. Irony. Humor. Because anything we write these days someone is bound to suggest an AI was used...
There clearly is something in the air.... I found your thoughts on AI and consciousness particularly interesting. Maybe it's the brain tricking us into thinking we have consciousness but then that sort of assumes the brain is somehow outside of us, doesn't it?
That was the introduction. Ultimately, I’m going to talk about the body and the human viscera in relation to Creative Writing, which echoes some of the points you made in your post about surprises and intuition. One thing LLMs will never do is be working on something else and suddenly —pop!—- an idea comes out of nowhere and they follow it and write an unexpected poem or story. This always happens to writers. We could be washing dishes and —pop! -beauty visits us.
Yes, exactly my point! And that is the loveliness and adventure of writing...the surprise of it all.