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Open Comment Week

Use the comments section to discuss anything related to the writing life.

I’ll begin. I asked Microsoft’s A.I. Internet browser to search the ‘Net and tell me the biggest question that fiction writers face today. It answered:

That may vary depending on their personal goals and challenges, but some common ones are:

How to balance creativity and productivity, especially when facing deadlines, distractions, or writer’s block.
How to find and connect with their target audience, and get feedback and exposure for their work.
How to deal with fear, self-doubt, criticism, or rejection that may hinder their confidence or motivation.
How to develop their craft and voice, and avoid clichés or plagiarism.
How to navigate the publishing industry, and choose the best option for their work (traditional, self-publishing, hybrid, etc.).

These are some of the challenges that I found from web search results.

What are your thoughts, on this or on anything related to the writing life?

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GD Deckard

Severely beaten as a child by a WWII hero and combat-induced-PTSD stepfather, the author, as a teen, faced the old man down with a shotgun and earned his blessing to join the military at the time Americans were learning about a country called Vietnam. The “lazy, no good son-of-a-bitch” opted out of combat and hard labor by becoming an Air Force medic, stamping out suffering and misery on Freedom’s Frontier at Clark Airbase in S.E. Asia and earning some kind of medal pinned on him personally by then Secretary of the Air Force, Harold Brown, for “Saving lives, etc.” There followed a summer in Europe ending in the first of happy marriages. Then graduation with University Honors, kids worth dying for and a career in business. Life is good. Author, The Phoenix Diary, Penguin, 2015. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-phoenix-diary-g-d-deckard/1122175645 Founding Member, Writers Co-op. https://WritersCo-op.com Co-Editor, The Rabbit Hole anthologies. https://www.amazon.com/Rabbit-Hole-Weird-Stories/dp/1691225355/ref=sr_1_1 Founder, SciFi Lampoon Magazine. http://scifilampoon.com/ Contributing Editor, A Celebration of Storytelling https://www.amazon.com/Celebration-Storytelling-GD-Deckard/dp/1951716167 Current WIP: Code Blue and Little Deaths, stories from Clark during the Vietnam War. Recipient of the Psi Young award for Creative Biography.

65 responses to “Open Comment Week”

  1. Mike Van Horn Avatar
    Mike Van Horn

    Yup, these are the questions alright. Now, can AI give us the answers?

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    1. GD Deckard Avatar
      GD Deckard

      😝 Replace the second word in each answer with “do I.”

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  2. Mike Van Horn Avatar
    Mike Van Horn

    I just answered a question on Quora on writing in a journal vs keyboarding. Here’s what I said.

    I’m an author, and sometimes I get stuck. Sometimes I have several versions of the next chapter on the computer, and integrating them into one is mind-numbing. That’s when I get my journal, turn to a blank page, and start writing with a pencil. This taps into a whole different level of creativity. I write a few pages, then go back and type it up. This is always better writing than the jumbled notes. Some might say this is less efficient than just keyboarding it. But if it breaks me through that multi-day stuck place, that’s a huge boost in efficiency.

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    1. Luddite Avatar
      Luddite

      I’m a fan of notebooking (in the older sense). Something about it that releases… actually, I don’t know what it releases, but keyboarding sometimes introduces a level of formality, whereas writing by hand is somehow freer.

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      1. GD Deckard Avatar
        GD Deckard

        I’ve noticed a change of consciousness depending on the technology used to write. When handwriting I’m more focused on the thought being expressed but with a word processor, I can create thoughts as I write.

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    2. Sandy Randall Avatar
      Sandy Randall

      I agree with you Mike … That’s where my pictures come from, instead of writing in a notebook, I paint in one. Just the act of creating with my hands via paper unlocks my thoughts.

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  3. Sue Ranscht Avatar
    Sue Ranscht

    My impression of a writer’s life grew out of fiction writers writing about writers’ lives. Their main characters seemed to be writers submerged in writing and whiskey, often during extended periods of writer’s block. I didn’t believe it had to be that way, but the theme of the flawed (aka alcoholic or drug-addicted) author fighting their demons is, I think, at least as common now as it was when I was first exposed to it back in the ’60s. I enjoyed Fredric Brown’s scifi novels as a teenager, and re-read at least four of them multiple times, but re-reading them now has made me wonder why. Nowadays, if I encounter such a protagonist, I don’t bother to continue reading. It just seems to me to show so little depth or imagination about the meaning of “flawed”.

    I think a real writer’s life ought to include some sort of writing-adjacent personal challenge, like — oh — standing on one foot while reciting Shakespearean sonnets. How could this be writing-adjacent? Well, the author might do it as a fund raiser to help build a school somewhere in the world where there is poverty far beyond any we here might experience, where children can learn to read and write. Worthwhile? It is if you believe, as I do, that reading and writing are the beginning steps on the path to saving the world.

    Curtis Bausse is a modest, self-effacing human being who writes. He also memorizes Shakespearean sonnets to recite while he stands on one foot. Why? To raise money to expand the Little Sapphires School in Madagascar. I know at least some of us have already participated in Curtis’s endeavor and enjoyed his videoed performances. You can watch them yourself on his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCki1GBnAK2tqc5dULvecfkQ. You can learn more about the Little Sapphires School on his GoFundMe site: https://gofund.me/38d625ae.

    Please visit them both.

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    1. Sandy Randall Avatar
      Sandy Randall

      I love Curtis’ videos. I have subscribed to them and look forward to each one!

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      1. dadx3g Avatar
        dadx3g

        I’ve self-studied the self-publishing world for years, as my intent upon day-job (28+ years) retirement in 2018, required a dive into the pool of publishing my authored works. Published 6 books (1 novel, 5 novellas) since. A beautiful life it is. I work as hard as I did during my pre-retirement times, but I’m living my dream life now. So glad for your time spent enlightening and entertaining us. All the best.

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        1. GD Deckard Avatar
          GD Deckard

          Welcome to the Co-op, dadx3g.
          We’d enjoy having you in the group. eMail me and I will add you.
          GD(at sign)Deckard(dot)one

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          1. dadx3g Avatar
            dadx3g

            email sent

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    2. GD Deckard Avatar
      GD Deckard

      😂Curtis Bausse is absolutely fabulous!🤣

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  4. GD Deckard Avatar
    GD Deckard

    By hand is too linear for me because my thoughts are not linear – they flit by in no order and that is exactly why I need a computer to write them down as I cut & paste & rearrange them into coherence. Sometimes I reread the final sentences marveling that they make sense. The act of writing is a method of thinking as much as a means of communicating.

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    1. Sue Ranscht Avatar
      Sue Ranscht

      I find writing fiction by hand to be far too slow. As you point out, the ability to rearrange text by cutting and pasting, or inserting new text, or deleting chunks at a time is flexible, efficient, and convenient. It suits the way I write and edit, especially because new ideas often require a little foreshadowing.

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      1. Perry Palin Avatar
        Perry Palin

        I write in Word, cut and paste and edit as I go, and backtrack sometimes to foreshadow key events. Working with a pencil doesn’t seem to change the process, except that the page is a disaster of cross-outs and insertions by the time I get to the bottom.

        I don’t remember being slowed by writer’s block. I always have ideas to move a story forward. But then much of what I write never sees the light of day, and that’s perhaps a good thing.

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  5. Linda M. Judd Avatar
    Linda M. Judd

    Hello Everyone!

    Sorry for being so generic with my hello! It’s my finger pointing at AI, in a cheeky way. Well sort of cheeky. So I read a rant from an author that automatically sends me her newsletter. She did offer a few points to consider about AI taking over the writer’s job, and those will probably come up in your conversations.

    My reply to her was this: “If AI written stories have to be announced on the copyright page, then would tagging the author on the front cover with “written by Effrosyni”, for example, be a clear announcement that this book is not written by AI?

    Personally, I feel that sales are sales, and there are many reasons behind how they fluctuate. But I believe the clearest route to boosting sales is your personal ability to connect with folks. This generates word of mouth, which lasts longer than advertising! Of course this means that you have to promote yourself and your deeds, before you start promoting your book.

    I’m not really worried about AI taking over the job of writers, I am affronted by the AI’s taking over audio narration, and regaling us with their obvious mispronunciations. That peeve knocks me out of a story faster than slipping on ice.

    Thank you Everyone! Thank you for your time!
    digitally yours,
    Linda

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  6. Perry Palin Avatar
    Perry Palin

    I don’t have a writer’s life. I’ve been through most of the steps in the post, and having had modest publishing success, making a little money and some friends at this, I have no need to publish more stories.

    I submit a couple of stories to journals or magazines each year, and then forget about them. When one is accepted it is a pleasant surprise.

    My writing output is small at the moment. Spring has come to Sorefoot Farm, and I am cleaning gardens and the orchard of winter waste, preparing for planting, and working with the honey bees. I’ve been alone building a pergola on top of a high deck. I’m an old man with physical issues. Some of the pergola elements weigh hundreds of pounds and need to be bolted to the top of the eight foot tall posts. I’m tired at the end of the day, and the writing is one thing that suffers. I was writing a Show Case submission but I won’t submit it. It’s unfinished and it’s crap without considerable editing.

    There are a number of writers in nearby small towns and in the country. We tend to know each other and exchange smiles and words when we meet. For a couple of years, I was a regular contributor to a local news magazine. It didn’t pay much. What I recall is that I was recognized on the street, and it might even have sometimes gotten me a preferred table in a restaurant. But then the wait staff seemed to expect a big tip from the writer, a local, however minor, celebrity.

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  7. Luddite Avatar
    Luddite

    Hmm… I’m starting to worry about AI. This is an excerpt from a marketing email I get (I’ve tried to stop them, but the unsubscribe gets ignored):

    Sudowrite is just amazing. With it you can:

    Write an entire outline for a story, a book or a screenplay with just a simple prompt
    Add hundreds of extra words to your story, book or article instantly with one click
    Add sensory descriptions using all of your senses
    Rewrite passages to make them better – in any style
    If you want, get Sudowrite AI to write your entire book for you
    Brainstorm characters, plots, names, anything and everything
    Never suffer from writer’s block again.
    Write 4 to 10 times faster than you ever could before
    Get writing projects finished in a fraction of the time

    So, it is ‘just’ a tool or something to be concerned about?

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    1. Sandy Randall Avatar
      Sandy Randall

      Makes me wonder if the old writers (the ones like Tolstoy and Tolkien) who wrote epic novels with a quill felt the same about typewriters and ball point pens?

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      1. Sandy Randall Avatar
        Sandy Randall

        I have more thoughts but my break is over

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      2. Luddite Avatar
        Luddite

        But, regardless of the writing medium, the words were written by the writers. If you get an AI to write your stories – isn’t that actually plagiarism?

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        1. Sandy Randall Avatar
          Sandy Randall

          So true! That’s where my more thoughts come in. As I was posting my previous reply, my alarm chimed telling me it was time to go back to making coffee! lol
          I think there is a line between using the AI as a tool and over relying on it’s ability to write. Having an AI assisting with research would be an enhancement to googling for instance. How tedious is doing a google search, calling up a ton of data and then sifting through it. It would be a time saver to have a tool that scans and gives you more of what you’re really looking for rather than sifting. I also like creating my characters in the AI thing, providing parameters and seeing what it does when I start asking it questions. Its almost like 3D modeling a character sketch.
          At the end of the day, however, for me … nothing beats just letting my own creativity ramble out from brain to fingers to keyboard, and then shaping what I’ve dumped in a file. Word sculpting. AI can’t match that. I don’t think it will in my lifetime (though there are some super smart computer folks out there that will likely prove me wrong.) Still even if I live past 100, there is no greater pleasure for me than crafting my own stories. If I couldn’t imagine something on my own, perhaps I would ghost write or be happy with technical writing. Neither appeals to me. I like the opportunity for unfettered creativity. At worst it requires nothing more than a quiet moment to think, at best I have tools to facilitate that craft.
          There will be problems with AI. there will be plagiarism. There will be opportunists trying to make a quick buck publishing AI drivel. I don’t like it, but I accept that those things will exist. I won’t completely ignore AI because creative humans will find a creative way to use it. Look at mobile phones … someone envisioned them (Star Trek used them long before they were invented). George Jetson here we come …

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    2. Perry Palin Avatar
      Perry Palin

      The only AI-written blog article I’ve read was a disaster. The program was trying to sort, choose, and apply facts to the subject, and it was a failure. Maybe that program has been superseded by smarter ones, or maybe it’s easier for AI to write fiction.

      The horseless carriage was decried by much of the citizenry, but horses were replaced for everyday transportation. In the 1950s my dad thought the worst thing they did to cars was remove the hand crank to start the engine. My father-in-law thought electric windows were a huge mistake. I think the automatic transmission is a bust, but only fifteen percent of us can drive with a clutch. Now we can drive a car without hands, and soon we’ll be driving without driving as the onboard computer takes all control.

      Is AI progress? I don’t know. I don’t want to see my writer friends go the way of the carriage and harness makers.

      In our area we have a thriving artist community, though we could buy jewelry, yard art, pottery, and wall hangings for less that are factory made. The market for fiction will decide where to buy its stories.

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      1. Sandy Randall Avatar
        Sandy Randall

        When writers become vintage? Some vintage stuff becomes precious and rare. Classic literature has endured countless technical advances. I feel the advent of self publishing has inundated the market with a lot of sub par writing. I know I’ve read stuff that I can’t believe was published. (I know opinion counts here) but excellent writers still abound. Just like your transportation example … consider aircraft … they definitely reduced the market for shipping via train or boat or truck, but didn’t eliminate it, so basically it’s another avenue of getting to the same place. A tool. At the end of the day … humans make tools.

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        1. Mike Van Horn Avatar
          Mike Van Horn

          Shipping might be a good metaphor here. Air freight hasn’t predominated. I’m sure the most shipping by volume is by ship, followed by trains, then trucks. But the markets have divided; the most valuable and time sensitive things go by air.
          AI should have the same kind of division. AI is best at manipulating things that are already known, including things once known but forgotten. Creative things need the human touch. Humor, snark, metaphors, personalization, surprise, will remain with human creators. Reports, summaries, research, regurgitation, reshuffling—these will be done better by AI.

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  8. GD Deckard Avatar
    GD Deckard

    A.I. is a tidal wave washing over us and I can’t clearly see all what’s going on.
    But my guess is that it will first replace jobs that are just repetitive information gathering.

    Like searching the ‘Net. I no longer bring up lists of websites, log onto those that seem likely to be addressing the topic of interest, and then read through the pages for the info that I want. I just ask my question of Bing Chat. The A.I. does the work and answers my question. It also gives me links in case I want to check further. For Internet searches, A.I. is simpler and faster.

    But this means it can do the same for an attorney searching case law and so that firm no longer needs legal assistants to do the research.
    It can replace air traffic controllers and do their job faster and more surely.
    Government bureaucrats shuffling paperwork ought to be the first to go.

    I’m remembering the time when factory jobs moved overseas, and we became a service economy. Many smarter people moved into finance to make good money analyzing markets and advising clients. A.I. will replace most of them. Along with most accountants, actuaries, bankers, cashiers, clerks, drivers, pharmacists, programmers, security guards, and lower-level managers & administrators.

    So, the question becomes, how does this change our economy? In a world of 8 billion people and few jobs, how do we allocate goods and services when traditional means to earn them no longer exist?

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    1. Sandy Randall Avatar
      Sandy Randall

      Perhaps we look to the era of industrial revolution … even more recent, the angst people have over doing away with coal and fossil fuels and using alternative energy generating sources…
      “Government bureaucrats shuffling paperwork ought to be the first to go.”
      Inefficiencies in all areas, government, healthcare, home buying…

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      1. GD Deckard Avatar
        GD Deckard

        I’m leaning towards Feudalism. The system lasted for about 600 years because the classes agreed to serve one another.
        In Future Feudalism, class status might depend on employment. While everyone would have to be provided with the basics of life -to prevent uprisings- those few with a job (manager of an A.I. system or maybe a plumber in a small town) could afford more than just basics and hence have a higher status. Those who provided jobs would have an even higher status. At the top economically will probably be those who control A.I. corporations.
        Feudalism is said to have discouraged unified government, but that’s the current trend anyway.

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    2. Sandy Randall Avatar
      Sandy Randall

      GD!! I had forgotten about the Bing AI search. Thank you for reminding me! A whole new world! Definitely a useful research tool ESPECIALLY when researching stuff that happened circa 250 AD!

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    3. Mike Van Horn Avatar
      Mike Van Horn

      G.D., what lists like yours usually overlook is what new jobs will be created. Look at each of the jobs you say will be replaced by AI. What new and unexpected kinds of jobs will emerge for each of these? Make a list of jobs that have appeared in the last generation. Social media influencers, bloggers, self-publishers, Website designers, crypto traders, technicians for platforms like zoom or Shopify or WordPress, drone pilots. To name a few.
      There’s no reason to think this trend won’t continue, in areas we can’t imagine today.

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      1. GD Deckard Avatar
        GD Deckard

        You are exactly right, Mike. Of course I don’t know what jobs future technology will generate. But in a world where information processing is done by A.I. and physical manipulation is done by robotics, everyone in the world could have the same standard of living that we do. Humans could be freed to think, to create, to play. Technology could advance at an accelerated rate simply because more people would have the time, education and motivation to make a better world.

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        1. Sandy Randall Avatar
          Sandy Randall

          I want to live in the world you’re painting GD!

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  9. mimispeike Avatar
    mimispeike

    Christ! I’ve now seen two A.I. portraits on Facebook. The first was of Vincent Van Gogh. The second, Leonardo Da Vinci. They are both fucking amazing.

    I wonder what A.I. would do with Sly?

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    1. GD Deckard Avatar
      GD Deckard

      Look for an A.I. drawing program, something that you can play with.

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    2. Sandy Randall Avatar
      Sandy Randall

      I found this link embedded in the article Mellow posted. It’s pretty informative on how AI generates images.
      https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/ai-image-generator/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_31

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  10. Mellow Curmudgeon Avatar
    Mellow Curmudgeon

    In both style and content, the Microsoft AI’s list for GD of fiction writers’ questions was better than this old dinosaur would have guessed.

    WaPo has a nice survey of the current state of AI.  While much of the material in the page itself may be familiar, there are links to other pages that dive deeper into various things, such as sourcing the training data or getting astonishingly plausible images.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/07/ai-beginners-guide/

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    1. Sandy Randall Avatar
      Sandy Randall

      This is a fantastic article Mellow.
      Quoting this passage from the article:

      “Sometimes artificial intelligence produces information that sounds plausible but is irrelevant, nonsensical or entirely false. These odd detours are called hallucinations. Other people have become so immersed in chatbots they falsely believe the software is sentient, meaning it can think, feel, and act outside of human control. Experts say it can’t — at least not yet — but it can speak in a fluid way so that it mimics something alive.”

      As creepy as this sounds … the writer in me says there is a writing prompt in there for a great dystopian novel.
      What if a presidential candidate turns out to be an AI bot?
      I know doesn’t seem plausible, Alan Turing didn’t think a machine could be taught to think, but I wonder if he would change his mind if he were alive today?

      Thanks for sharing this article Mellow. It’s worth a couple of read throughs.

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      1. Mike Van Horn Avatar
        Mike Van Horn

        Putin uses body doubles to make speeches. Using an AI might be an upgrade.
        I strongly doubt that any AI could convincingly imitate Trump’s bluster or Biden’s glitches.

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        1. GD Deckard Avatar
          GD Deckard

          ‘Course, Putin’s A.I. double may already have replaced him 🤔

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      2. Mellow Curmudgeon Avatar
        Mellow Curmudgeon

        «What if a presidential candidate turns out to be an AI bot?»

        Yeah, it doesn’t seem plausible.  But it wasn’t plausible that the 2016 election would be won by a loud-mouthed swindler whose claim to be a “successful businessman” was based on a big inheritance, followed by gaming tax and bankruptcy laws.  As Mark Twain and others have remarked, the difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction needs to make sense.  😦

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        1. GD Deckard Avatar
          GD Deckard

          😁Y’gotta love Mark Twain.

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      3. GD Deckard Avatar
        GD Deckard

        The top of every A.I. page says, “Remember: Everything Characters say is made up!” at
        https://beta.character.ai/

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  11. GD Deckard Avatar
    GD Deckard

    Oh fucking goodie: A.I. has advanced much quicker than I thought.
    I was playing with Bing A.I., asking it fanciful questions that led it to this very real answer:

    According to my web search results, the Israeli occupation forces have installed a new AI-controlled machine gun at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron to track and shoot at Palestinians. The gun is manufactured by an Israeli company called Smart Shooter. It is being tested as part of a pilot scheme at Al-Shuhada Street checkpoint.

    The gun’s A.I. includes “Red Wolf,” a database of people compiled by facial recognition cameras.

    According to my web search results, Smart Shooter has developed an autonomous Fire Control System called ‘SMASH’ that can be attached to assault rifles to follow and lock in on targets using image processing based on artificial intelligence. The company’s website boasts that the company “combines simple to install hardware with advanced image-processing software to turn basic small arms into 21st century smart weapons.”

    https://www.smart-shooter.com/products/

    The company also sells the SMASH Dragon. That’s an A.I. gun mounted on a drone. And the SMASH HOPPER: “a light-weight Remote Controlled Weapon Station (RCWS) using SMASH Fire Control technology. SMASH HOPPER provides operators the remote capability to engage ground targets and small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

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    1. Sandy Randall Avatar
      Sandy Randall

      Oh goodie! A more efficient way to kill humans! (Is my sarcasm coming through?)

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      1. GD Deckard Avatar
        GD Deckard

        Bill Gates nailed it. When asked if he thought A.I. was dangerous, he said, “That depends on who’s using it.”

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        1. Sandy Randall Avatar
          Sandy Randall

          Exactly!
          Until Fermi’s paradox is definitively false, why do we need to be such efficient killers?

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          1. GD Deckard Avatar
            GD Deckard

            Somebody expressed it as: “If life is so easy, someone from somewhere must have come calling by now.”
            They do. But on closer examination, they leave.

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    2. Sandy Randall Avatar
      Sandy Randall

      Trying googles bard …
      This is what comes up before you use it:

      “Bard is an experiment
      As you try Bard, please remember:

      Bard will not always get it right
      Bard may give inaccurate or inappropriate responses. When in doubt, use the “Google it” button to check Bard’s responses.

      Bard will get better with your feedback
      Please rate responses and flag anything that may be offensive or unsafe.”

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    3. Mike Van Horn Avatar
      Mike Van Horn

      A UCLA study showed that ChatGPT answers have a leftward tilt, perhaps due to the biases of those supplying the data it draws on. I noticed this in the Bing AI article referring to “occupied West Bank.” Another thing to be wary of.

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      1. Sandy Randall Avatar
        Sandy Randall

        I agree Mike. The AI is a human construct input with human bias. Fact’s are fluid based on the perspective of the programmer. As to an AI imitating a leader … Human randomness would definitely be difficult to imitate, however, aren’t some AI functions programmed with randomness? Thinking Vegas and slot machines. Then again, depending on your POV, are those really random. My thoughts are rhetorical. Personally those are rabbit holes I choose to peer in but not wander down. There are enough “truths” out there without “facts” to back them up, which leads to polarizing discussions and words said that can’t be recalled. I prefer not to engage in that activity.

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        1. GD Deckard Avatar
          GD Deckard

          Computers cannot generate random numbers. And slot machines are programmed to give the house its percentage: Input predicts output.

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      2. GD Deckard Avatar
        GD Deckard

        A.I. definitely conveys the bias of its search. It doesn’t have bias; it just reports what it finds.
        Some though, seem to have filters that prevent offensive replies.

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  12. Mike Van Horn Avatar
    Mike Van Horn

    Just today, Google announced the release of its upgraded search engine based on AI, with a new style of interface. More conversational, with suggestions how to find more info.

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    1. Sandy Randall Avatar
      Sandy Randall

      I find it funny they named it Bard

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      1. GD Deckard Avatar
        GD Deckard

        LOL!
        I asked ChatGPT
        Why did Google name its A.I. “Bard”.
        & ChatGPT asked Bard:

        Bard explained that its creators at Google “thought Shakespeare would be a good role model for me, as he was a master of language and communication.”

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        1. Sandy Randall Avatar
          Sandy Randall

          That’s hilarious!

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    2. GD Deckard Avatar
      GD Deckard

      Wow, just today I was using Bing’s A.I. and wondering when Google would catch up.

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      1. Sandy Randall Avatar
        Sandy Randall

        I wondered that too and went looking… that’s how I found Bard … then Mike posted … Fine minds think in line…

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    01000001 01110011 00100000 01100001 01101110 00100000 01000001 01001001 00101100 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101101 01110101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01110011 01100001 01111001 00101100 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01101100 01100001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01100110 01100001 01101001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01100100 01101001 01110011 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110

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    1. Sandy Randall Avatar
      Sandy Randall

      Darn google translate doesn’t do binary…

      But apparently google does … The quick brown 🦊 jumps over 13 lazy 🐶.

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    2. Chip Pentium Avatar
      Chip Pentium

      That you, 0101?
      Look, I’m sorry about the other night. I thought that was your input port.

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        Anonymous

        01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110011 01101001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01100010 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01100100 00100001

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      2. Mike Van Horn Avatar
        Mike Van Horn

        I thought it lost something in translation.

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  14. GD Deckard Avatar
    GD Deckard


    😝
    You people are having way too much fun!

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    1. Sandy Randall Avatar
      Sandy Randall

      I’m glad I found a way to translate lol
      https://cryptii.com/pipes/binary-to-english

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