Posted on 06/01/2025 5:21:23 AM PDT by Lazamataz
Using AI to help write? The short answer is, I don't.
There is a person, Tim Boucher, who has used AI to write at least 97 books. That's impressive, but I would wager that if I got into reading one of them, it would be an intolerable slog that I wouldn't be able to get through.
That is because of my observations when getting AI to experimentally generate some fiction. Everything it writes is very hackneyed, very trite material. Everything always ends up positive, everyone is happy, there is little conflict or conflict resolution, and every character has the exact same voice.
I like my fiction to have current colloquial expressions, AI doesn't do that. I like to have little plot twists here and there, AI doesn't seem capable. When possible, I like to have my chapters end with a mike-drop sentence. AI hasn't been able to generate one of those.
I'm over 75% finished with my political-thriller / science-fiction novel, so I'm starting to think about leveraging AI to produce a book cover or promotional images and video shorts. Even there, the creativity seems constrained. You can readily identify images created by AI, they all have a certain subjective feel to them.
However, there is a place for automation. It isn't AI, exactly, but automated grammar and punctuation error-checking is a stellar function. It's caught a lot of my minor errors. Even then, sometimes, I'll take artistic license to have characters speak with a more 'real-life' tone, or to describe a circumstance with more punch.
Fair enough. However, to your retirement comment: Be careful. I see too many people stop working and start dying.
Personally, my retirement plan is to keel over in my home office. 😊
(Besides, if you have developed an extreme skillset over your career, what a shame it would be to let it languish.)
Bob said, "Bob is mad at Bob and is especially angry at Bob's wife, Bob."
When I was 18 going on 19 in the summer of ‘77, I practically got paid to read all the latest issues while working the midnight shift at my local 7-11.
Ha! Jokes on you—im not married- and her name was bobianna
My exit was due to my boss running out of money on the contract. We literally have people juggling PTO to keep the team afloat until the next contract award in August. I have had retirement in my back pocket for 5 years as an alternative to continued work. I did want to keep working, but there is a big austerity policy smothering staffing since Trump returned. I have an option, so I decided it was time to retire. My cancer has a 45% chance of recurrence by next June, so I'm taking time while I'm still relatively healthy.
This evening I broke out the jewelers tools (T5 torx bit) to remove 12 tiny screws off the bottom of my laptop. Next step was to pull the 512GB Samsung NVMe drive with Windows 10 and replace it with a new Kingston 512GB NVMe to host Fedora 42 workstation. The motherboard BIOS won't support more than 512GB. I swapped drives to preserve the custom Windows 10 from Asus. The Kingston drive is 3x faster than the original Samsung device. Fedora 42 is now running on the laptop. No more concern for "end of life" Windows 10. The CPU wasn't on the supported CPU list for Windows 11.
Personally, my retirement plan is to keel over in my home office. 😊
I have the same plan. The company laptop is being shipped back on Tuesday. That frees the KVM slot for my fresh Fedora 42 laptop. The i9 desktop has Fedora with 64 GB RAM. The i7 desktop has 64 GB RAM with Windows 11. Plenty of resources to ply my interests in AI, DSP and ham radio. The funeral home director should be good at getting keyboard impressions off my face. If the aortic aneurysm blows first, the outcome may be slightly different.
(Besides, if you have developed an extreme skillset over your career, what a shame it would be to let it languish.)
Not a problem. I'm now free to do things that my customer would never permit. Over the last week I built kubernetes pods with webservers built on Python and Rust to run inside a minikube cluster. I'm going to add a Javascript version this week. The customer restricted us to Java with SpringBoot REST. The other 3 languages would have opened more options for incorporating data science and machine learning via Python and much faster systems oriented processing under Rust. Javascript brings a range of libraries that run in lightweight fashion. Planning on flying not dying.
Dinking around with AI the other day I asked it to compose a birthday greeting for the pathological liar niece of mine. I wasn’t impressed with the results... it was too gracious.
I’ll try a pornigraphuc Dick & Jane short story and see how it turns out...
You won’t be able to. Most public AI / LLM engines are guardrailed.
True!👍
Keep after it by prompting it to make the poem less gracious u 5il you get something you like. I had to prompt an ai to keep making “ghetto talk” more ghetto sounding, which it eventually fdid after 5-6 prompts
That term could be offensive to all of us ex-squids, although I do remember seeing a couple one night at the EM Club right after the Saratoga got underway. LOL
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