Margaret Atwood Reviews a Margaret Atwood Story by AI
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#2After reading the end of this, I have the feeling I should read some classroom chatGPT's version of 'childrens stories in the style of H.P.Lovecraft'. Halloween is near anyway.
Re: Margaret Atwood Reviews a Margaret Atwood Story by AI
#3That criticism reminds me articles/videos where professional musicians critise some famous hit songs. Musicians sometimes can comment that guitar is ahead of drums or vocal doesn't hit notes quite well. The things that I as not musician doesn't hear at all. And this is also common topic in their reviews, that one should write music for audience, not for other musicians.
I'm not native speaker and many weirdnesses of the text may go past me, but I can say that for me the commented texts (especially the 2nd one, about post apocalyptic Canada) are completely passable and much better that what I will be able ever to write.
Yes, it may be not a threat (yet) to professional, especially established author. But they will be good helpers for people like me, who can get suggestions, improvements and illustrations just for the price of my 4090 and time to tinker with models.
No gpt was used for writing this though.
Re: Margaret Atwood Reviews a Margaret Atwood Story by AI
#4That criticism reminds me articles/videos where professional musicians critise some famous hit songs. Musicians sometimes can comment that guitar is ahead of drums or vocal doesn't hit notes quite well. The things that I as not musician doesn't hear at all. And this is also common topic in their reviews, that one should write music for audience, not for other musicians. I'm not native speaker and many weirdnesses of…
> Yes, it may be not a threat (yet) to professional, especially established author. But they will be good helpers for people like me, who can get suggestions, improvements and illustrations just for the price of my 4090 and time to tinker with models.
I think that's more or less what Atwood was saying: that it's not yet good enough to replace talented professionals. I doubt she'd argue that it can do the other things you mentioned.
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#5That criticism reminds me articles/videos where professional musicians critise some famous hit songs. Musicians sometimes can comment that guitar is ahead of drums or vocal doesn't hit notes quite well. The things that I as not musician doesn't hear at all. And this is also common topic in their reviews, that one should write music for audience, not for other musicians. I'm not native speaker and many weirdnesses of…
Musicians write for other musicians. Coders use the best data structure to solve a problem not for the users but for another coder to appreciate. You weigh praise on the merits of the judge to do the judgement. People in the end listen to the music musicians listen to, even if this is with a lag. I am not a musician but I appreciate a musician’s depth of understanding for something I superficially let stroke my ears.
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#6That criticism reminds me articles/videos where professional musicians critise some famous hit songs. Musicians sometimes can comment that guitar is ahead of drums or vocal doesn't hit notes quite well. The things that I as not musician doesn't hear at all. And this is also common topic in their reviews, that one should write music for audience, not for other musicians. I'm not native speaker and many weirdnesses of…
Musicians write for other musicians. Coders use the best data structure to solve a problem not for the users but for another coder to appreciate. You weigh praise on the merits of the judge to do the judgement. People in the end listen to the music musicians listen to, even if this is with a lag. I am not a musician but I appreciate a musician’s depth of understanding for something I superficially let stroke my ears.
> Coders use the best data structure to solve a problem not for the users but for another coder to appreciate.
If only. That would make life so much better and easier.
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#7Reading this, I realize that the "prompt" is what's lacking, in terms of the output produced. A writer has a prompt too -- which is created through the entirety of their experience leading up to the moment they sit down to write, often heavily weighted towards the hours leading up to that moment. AI will catch up to actual human writers when it can spend a day's visual, auditory, and linguistic stimuli crafting the prompt that leads to moment of creation.
Re: Margaret Atwood Reviews a Margaret Atwood Story by AI
#8That criticism reminds me articles/videos where professional musicians critise some famous hit songs. Musicians sometimes can comment that guitar is ahead of drums or vocal doesn't hit notes quite well. The things that I as not musician doesn't hear at all. And this is also common topic in their reviews, that one should write music for audience, not for other musicians. I'm not native speaker and many weirdnesses of…
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#9Reading this, I realize that the "prompt" is what's lacking, in terms of the output produced. A writer has a prompt too -- which is created through the entirety of their experience leading up to the moment they sit down to write, often heavily weighted towards the hours leading up to that moment. AI will catch up to actual human writers when it can spend a day's visual, auditory, and linguistic stimuli crafting the p…
it's not a prompt, it's a dialog, it's many prompts.
Re: Margaret Atwood Reviews a Margaret Atwood Story by AI
#10That criticism reminds me articles/videos where professional musicians critise some famous hit songs. Musicians sometimes can comment that guitar is ahead of drums or vocal doesn't hit notes quite well. The things that I as not musician doesn't hear at all. And this is also common topic in their reviews, that one should write music for audience, not for other musicians. I'm not native speaker and many weirdnesses of…
> Yes, it may be not a threat (yet) to professional, especially established author. But they will be good helpers for people like me, who can get suggestions, improvements and illustrations just for the price of my 4090 and time to tinker with models. I think that's more or less what Atwood was saying: that it's not yet good enough to replace talented professionals. I doubt she'd argue that it can do the other things…
She seems to feel the gap is really large right now. Even if it is as bad as she indicates, I wonder how long it will be before the gap is closed given the progress we've seen recently.