MargaretC
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MargaretC
My fondest memories, however, are of the good people—total strangers—who did really nice things for us. Perhaps people who live closer to nature are inherently kinder and more generous.
J.R. Harris • Way Out There: Adventures of a Wilderness Trekker
I find that it’s in this search for aesthetic satisfaction that so many of the best lessons are found. I’m not talking about ornamentation or bells and whistles. I’m taking about the beauty of the four Cs: Clarity, cohesion, consistency, and conciseness. If you have the eye, you’ll recognize them easily (even if getting there isn’t quite so easy).
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Bestselling children's author Andy Stanton is known for his unconventional, absurdist stories. Skeptical that ChatGPT can mimic human creativity, he gives it a prompt about a blue whale with a tiny penis to test its capabilities. What follows is a surprising battle between Andy and ChatGPT to understand AI's limits. Andy presents the AI's narrative and his commentary in a metafictional journey exploring storytelling. The book provides a hopeful and hilarious meditation on AI, literature and human creativity, exploring whether AI can truly replace authors or match human spontaneity
Arbituram
Jul 4
Same here; I'm not rubbishing the benchmarks, they have their uses, but Sonnet 3.5 just *feels* so far ahead of anything else, I had to go for a long walk on the beach after using it to contemplate how long humanity has left.
Sonnet 3.5 is able to have thoughtful and nuanced conversations on complex topics and to be proactive in... See more
Jul 4
Same here; I'm not rubbishing the benchmarks, they have their uses, but Sonnet 3.5 just *feels* so far ahead of anything else, I had to go for a long walk on the beach after using it to contemplate how long humanity has left.
Sonnet 3.5 is able to have thoughtful and nuanced conversations on complex topics and to be proactive in... See more
Ethan Mollick • Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold
