Shawn C. Butler's Blog

In a 2023 article, ChatGPT Writes Murder, I explored how well OpenAI‘s Artificial Intelligence application could write original murder and mystery prose. As it turns out, not very well. Has ChatGPT improved in the year since? Where possible, I’ve input the exact same prompts in the exact same order to see what’s improved… or not. This is all being done with the public, freely available version. So, here we go…

The initial prompt was based on a novel I was ...

As of today, all Universal Gender-Neutral English content has been (or will be) migrated to UniversalEnglish.org. I hope you’ll join us on the new site, and continue the development of this standard.

Thank you!

This is about the real threat of designer babies, but also what it means to be human, to be flawed, to be inferior or superior, and how easily we’re judged by others. This kid was violent, angry, toxic trash. Of course he was a shooter.

Basics: Mixed race / Asian American (like Audrey), but could pass for white

Title: Police Consultant (Among other things) under the name Marks Technical Consulting Services, and he’s technical...

ChatGPT writes murder! Murder, ChatGPT wrote! But seriously, if you’ve been on the internet lately, you might have noticed ChatGPT (OpenAI‘s interactive AI chat system) can do pretty much everything. Now Microsoft has invested $10 million or something, sorry, $10 billion, so the hype is sure to die down. But in the meantime, what can ChatGPT actually do in terms of creative prose fiction? Can it write a story based on a simple prompt and, if so how good is that story? Let’s take a quick look.

(A is for) Ascendance is first book in a series of Nathan Marks stand-alone, near-future science fiction mystery-thrillers about human society and the impacts of new and potentially deadly technologies. Will this series have the twenty-six books needed to be abecadarian? Only time will tell.

Is it murder to��kill the genetically modified?

A terrible crime at a prestigious private school. Four teenagers murdered with precision that defies explanation. Three of them are beautiful...

(A is for) Ascendance is first book in a series of Nathan Marks stand-alone, near-future science fiction mystery-thrillers about human society and the impacts of new and potentially deadly technologies. Will this series have the twenty-six books needed to be abecadarian? Only time will tell.

Is a genetically engineered person human?
If not, is it still a crime to kill…it?

Rich parents can travel to secret overseas clinics where they choose how their children are made–naturally or ...

(A is for) Ascendance is first book in a series of Nathan Marks stand-alone, near-future science fiction mystery-thrillers about human society and the impacts of new and potentially deadly technologies. Will this series have the twenty-six books needed to be abecadarian? Only time will tell.

Is it Wrong to Kill a Designer Baby?

Rich parents can travel to secret overseas clinics where they choose how their children are made–naturally or genetically designed.

Are these designer babi...

With all the hype about ChatGPT, a relatively new AI-based chat system from OpenAI, I thought I’d see what it can do for that bane of self-published authors–the marketing blurb. Can it help make our blurbs better, save us time writing them, or write them all by itself? No way to know without trying, so…off we go.

I decided to start with my first published science-fiction novel, Run Lab Rat Run, just to see what happened–and to start without any style or other ...

With all the hype about ChatGPT, a relatively new AI-based chat system from OpenAI, I thought I’d see what it can do for that bane of self-published authors–the marketing blurb. Can it help make our blurbs better, save us time writing them, or write them all by itself? No way to know without trying, so…off we go.

I decided to start with my first published science-fiction novel, Run Lab Rat Run, just to see what happened–and to start without any style or other ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Audiobooks will make human narrators obsolete by the end of the decade (2030). That’s a prediction, implying an educated guess, but it’s almost a certainty. And whether it’s 2029 or 2031 doesn’t really matter; what matters is that an entire profession will either vanish or be so greatly diminished it will seem quaint. When I first started thinking about this series, and before doing much research, I thought that human obsolescence so soon was unlikely. Now I think it...