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Month: August 2023

That’s not funn-AI…

16 August 2023 / / 0 Comments

I recently started writing and performing standup comedy as a hobby. This was in part to boost my creative human skills against the onslaught of generative A.I. (I’ve also taken up metalworking and sculpture for similar reasons.)

A.I. will only get better and more convincing at every form of spoken/written communication, including the “last frontier” of humor. No doubt, soon A.I. will also be combined with 3D printing to make museum-worthy metal sculpture.

As that all sinks in, I’ll keep working on my human game while making the most of A.I. tools. 

#human #ai #skynet

New York Times, Aug. 15, 2023
In the Battle Between Bots and Comedians, A.I. Is Killing

Chatbots are getting funny. That’s scary.

11 August 2023 / / 0 Comments

Now for some #AI news that’s both funny and scary for writers of all stripes…

Check out The AI-generated Onion headlines in this Time magazine piece. They’re funny, which makes them scary. Because it’s very, very hard to write funny. (Believe me – I’ve tried standup comedy.) It’s much easier to write corp comms, PR and marketing copy.

So let’s just accept today that AI will soon be writing better than any of us.

What to do?

First, learn all you can about text-generative AIs – what they’re capable of and how best to use them in your work. Today. (Yes, ChatGPT can seem dumb and it’s clumsy now – but, as Simon Rich says in this piece, it’s clumsy on purpose.)

Second, consider all the non-writing skills our profession uses – counseling, researching, planning, speaking, engaging audiences, creating experiences and events. Sharpen those skills. Because once writing is being done better by non-humans (think – a year or two), we’ll need to step up our #human game.

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