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How a Stylistic, Machine-Generated Thesaurus Impacts a Writer’s Process
What they were looking for—and the words they use to describe it
Kristin Zhivago • Roadmap to Revenue: How to Sell the Way Your Customers Want to Buy
A thesaurus is a word treasury.
Our interfaces should facilitate prose-sculpting, meaning-architecting, memory-augmenting, and inspiration-harvesting—all grounded in sources we love and trust. Just as calculators shifted math from rote computation to conceptual exploration, AI can nudge creative work toward the things humans are uniquely good at: thinking and feeling deeply.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
Maybe that’s my problem with AI-generated prose: it doesn’t mean anything because it didn’t cost the computer anything. When a human produces words, it signifies something. When a computer produces words, it only signifies the content of its training corpus and the tuning of its parameters. It has no context—or, really, it has infinite context, bec
... See moreEven when these paragraphs fail, they make her interested in the story again. She’s curious about this computer-generated text, and it reignites her interest in her own writing.