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Splendid - and insightful - commentary, Tim!
This story (or is it more of a vignette? maybe flash fiction?) raises a lot of questions I would like answered as well. The recent warnings about Artificial Intelligence from worried developers has inspired anxiety about the future of our species, and I tried to write an optimistic narrative about a friendly AI just to assuage my own foreboding. Only after I started to get to know the anthropic AI, Meemur, did I see that a kindly android required a future amiable to human beings. I, too, would like to know more about the cognitively-enhanced golden children and their management of global resources. If the future is ample and clever enough, I may well develop that story. Your encouragement is the seed!
Thank you for caring!
Well as a veteran developer myself, I try to rest assured that what we are calling "AI" isn't deserving of the "I". It's just a really good prediction algorithm with access to everything it can hoover up through the internet (granted that's quite a lot). Novel reasoning and true creative leaps are simply not possible unless (until?) the technology breaks past what is likely to be a long plateau as corporations try their best to squeeze all they can from the current manifestation of "AI".
I hope you get more positive feedback on this piece, and I'll certainly be watching this space for updates! All the best.
Good point about AI's current lack of "novel reasoning" - and an excellent remedy for my anxiety about Artificial "Intelligence" extincting us. Now, I can more calmly return to my fantasy projects, confident that I can write about Merlin aging backward and dragons visiting Avalon without fear that ChatGPT will beat me to it!
Ooo does that mean there's a new Camelot book brewing? :)
Yes! Dragon Perilous: Gestes of Love, the Wyrm, and the Dark Hunt on Avalon set 200 years after the fall of Camelot, with a much younger Merlin wayfaring Brythonic Britain, trying to atone for his tragic failure with Arthur. Not an AI in sight! ;)
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Splendid - and insightful - commentary, Tim! This story (or is it more of a vignette? maybe flash fiction?) raises a lot of questions I would like answered as well. The recent warnings about Artificial Intelligence from worried developers has inspired anxiety about the future of our species, and I tried to write an optimistic narrative about a friendly AI just to assuage my own foreboding. Only after I started to get to know the anthropic AI, Meemur, did I see that a kindly android required a future amiable to human beings. I, too, would like to know more about the cognitively-enhanced golden children and their management of global resources. If the future is ample and clever enough, I may well develop that story. Your encouragement is the seed!
Thank you for caring!
Well as a veteran developer myself, I try to rest assured that what we are calling "AI" isn't deserving of the "I". It's just a really good prediction algorithm with access to everything it can hoover up through the internet (granted that's quite a lot). Novel reasoning and true creative leaps are simply not possible unless (until?) the technology breaks past what is likely to be a long plateau as corporations try their best to squeeze all they can from the current manifestation of "AI".I hope you get more positive feedback on this piece, and I'll certainly be watching this space for updates! All the best.
Good point about AI's current lack of "novel reasoning" - and an excellent remedy for my anxiety about Artificial "Intelligence" extincting us. Now, I can more calmly return to my fantasy projects, confident that I can write about Merlin aging backward and dragons visiting Avalon without fear that ChatGPT will beat me to it!
Ooo does that mean there's a new Camelot book brewing? :)
Yes! Dragon Perilous: Gestes of Love, the Wyrm, and the Dark Hunt on Avalon set 200 years after the fall of Camelot, with a much younger Merlin wayfaring Brythonic Britain, trying to atone for his tragic failure with Arthur. Not an AI in sight! ;)
- Why did the golden children need to create a "fortress"? Who or what did they need to defend themselves against?
- How will you (the author) tackle the age old conundrum of an advanced AI having the spark of self awareness, yet seeming to be fully accepting of its subservient existence?
- "Children" with such almost limitless power could quickly lead to scenarios that simply defy explanation and run the risk of leaving the reader and the surrounding non-enhanced characters unable to make sense of it. Is Ru Shi an exceptional golden child who, because of her unique upbringing, is able to interpret for us?
I know comparison can come off as condescension, but none is implied when I say that I'm getting a lot of Akira and Ghost In The Machine vibes from this - in the best possible way.
Thank you for sharing!