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Coming Soon: Fearless Worlds
At this point I’m just waiting on the cover art and then I’ll be birthing my latest baby into the bookiverse. It’s been an interesting two years. That’s when I started the book, and the working title was All About AI. I wrote the first draft of it during the last NaNoWriMo event. At the time I was polishing (and trying to find a publisher for) Something About AI. Once that novel launched, I went back to its sequel and began the first round of editing. Cutting chapters, adding chapters, tweaking and reading bits and pieces to my critique group for their input, and then I had it where I felt I could live with it. Not that it was something that made me really proud, but that now wasn’t the time to pursue perfection. I’ll be honest, I’m no perfectionist. And I’m kind of lazy. And I know the novel, like the first one, has loads of dialog. But here’s the thing about dialog, people don’t skip it. I talked to a lot of power readers. I even attempted a survey on Substack to ask strangers, and every one of them said that they skip descriptions but not dialog. My writing will continue to get better and that means including more description in my stories and not skippable descriptions either, but right now, I needed to get my novel out. My dear friend (and a beta reader – the only one this time) wrote this to me: “Dude you have to publish. Because you wrote it before it started happening!!! You’re the first! Get it out there! With this new development on Reddit, you have to prove you were ahead of the Singularity!” Haha – of course I wasn’t the first, but we both knew what he meant. My
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Thoughts on the Dr. Roman Yampolskiy Interview
Roman V. Yampolskiy (Russian: Роман Владимирович Ямпольский) is a computer scientist at the University of Louisville, mostly known for his work on AI safety and cybersecurity. He is the founder and as of 2012 director of Cyber Security Lab, in the department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the Speed School of Engineering of the University of Louisville. Source: wiki Steven Bartlett interviews Dr. Roman Yampolskiy on his The Diary of a CEO podcast which Spotify Wrapped ranked fifth in its list of the top five most popular podcasts in 2024. The interviews are always long, giving the listener (or viewer if you watch on YouTube) a good sense of the person being interviewed but this video is only about 20 minutes. As I’m collecting my thoughts, character arcs, conflicts, and other pieces of my Something About AI sequel (not yet named, I just call it Book 2) I’ve been watching a few interviews like this. It’s a way for an outsider like me to keep up with what’s happening in the AI space. These are some of my thoughts about this particular interview. Yampolskiy uses a term I haven’t heard before but now I won’t forget it: Uncontrolled Super Intelligence 1:07 Here we’re inventing a replacement for human mind. We are inventing a replacement for human mind. I’m intrigued by the idea that never before have humans invented something that can invent things. You rarely see AI referred to in this way. It’s easy to see how, in this context, AI can take over all the major aspects of human civilization. 1:58 “We as humans have this built-in bias about not thinking about really bad outcomes and things we cannot prevent.” This is something I’ve marveled about with regard to climate destabilization. In this case it’s not just
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To or Not To Create an Audiobook
The old school cassette recorder is funny, right? I had one just like that. When The Beatles album, Let It Be, came out I recorded it on a cassette so I could take it with me everywhere. At night I’d listen to it in bed using the one little ear bud that was the norm for such things back then. Ah, today there are many choices. I have been trained and have done voice over work (games & training videos). I wanted to do some audiobook recordings for LibriVox some years ago but dealing with the technical aspects of Audacity were tedious and I gave up. So when my cousin begged me (she said Please) to create an audiobook of my SAAI novel the first thoughts I had were how tedious that would be because I assumed I’d do it myself using Audacity. Me. The AI immersed silly woman did not, at first, think of using AI to convert my book. Me. The author who always uses the “Read Aloud” function in Microsoft Word as part of my editing process. I crack myself up. There are so many options out there for creating audiobooks it’s kind of hard to decide so here’s what I’ve learned in my pursuit of knowledge in that area. Of course, I eventually get around to asking my AI Assistant for help and was advised as follows. Q: What are the most secure (not risking my copyright) methods of using AI to create audiobooks? A. To create audiobooks using AI while protecting your copyright and creative control, you’ll want to focus on tools and workflows that respect authorship, offer licensing clarity, and minimize the risk of voice misuse or unauthorized distribution. Here’s a breakdown of the most secure methods: 🔐 1. Use AI Tools That Offer
Thoughts on the Blake Lemoine Interview
That Tech Show’s July 7th, 2022 interview with the Google engineer who claimed LaMDA is sentient. As previously mentioned, my NaNoWriMo project (Novel) this year has a main character that is, basically, A.I. Therefore, I’m doing quite a bit of additional research on A.I. As you see from what gets posted here or discussed on podcasts I am already paying quite a bit of attention to A.I. news but this focus is something different, it isn’t so much about generative A.I., rather, it’s about what happens if A.I. can fool us and be as human as we are. Here is the link to the That Tech Show interview that I’m referring to in this post. Just FYI Blake posted a transcript of one of his discussions with LaMDA. You can read it here. It is cited as being heavily edited here. A few things about Blake Lemoine that he claims in this interview. That’s my highlights from the 50 minute interview. Wow. This is like GOLD for my new book. I’ll leave you with this definition: sen·tient (adjective)/ˈsen(t)SH(ē)ənt/able to perceive or feel things. “she had been instructed from birth in the equality of all sentient life forms”
NaNoWriMo 2023
I’m feeling very Authorish right now. … Continue readingNaNoWriMo 2023