Last week, in Protocolized, I published a story called The Signal Under Innsmouth.

This has been my best attempt at AI-assisted fiction writing to date, and also one of the easiest. I simply fed the original story (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, a cult classic which Lovecraft wrote in 1937, so it’s in the public domain — not that I’d have hesitated if... See more

. Large Models are surprisingly effective at abstracting subtle and nonobvious patterns in texts and images. This suggests that such technologies could be used to find novel patterns in text and images that crisscross the space of human knowledge and culture, including patterns invisible to any particular human. We may require new systems that... See more