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<p>On the broader subject of AI and literature, this human
mind-boggling report has, among other things, an account of an AI
program's completion of a 6 word short story attributed to
Hemingway. To my mind it highlights the difference between human
imaginative genius and the algorithm's assiduously
conventionalizing imitation.<br>
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<p><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-artificial-intelligence-future-60-minutes-transcript-2023-07-09/__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!S_v0sBBa00hNqwsRYUWYUW7WcAq-7thdYjYT-BaczDVAiKQDHkMnJNMTYTxLVqWaPjxLL_lvTMMrxj143ClFSTdz$" target="_blank">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-artificial-intelligence-future-60-minutes-transcript-2023-07-09/</a></p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Christine<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/14/2023 4:13 AM, Jane deGay via
Vwoolf wrote:<br>
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Happy Friday, Woolfians Here’s a Woolf sighting for you.
Bernardine Evaristo, President of the UK’s Royal Society of
Literature has given a speech warning of the threats to
literature posed by ChatGPT. She gives the example of asking
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<p class="MsoNormal">Happy Friday, Woolfians<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s a Woolf sighting for you. Bernardine
Evaristo, President of the UK’s Royal Society of Literature
has given a speech warning of the threats to literature posed
by ChatGPT. She gives the example of asking GPT to write a
sequel to
<i>Mrs Dalloway:</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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urged attendees to “understand” how the “polymathic”
artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT – a chatbot that
provides humanlike responses to questions and commands by
drawing on internet data – will have an impact on “our
precious literature culture”. She said that the tool is in
one sense a “parasitic, plagiaristic, rapacious
super-brain”, but that on the other hand it could prove to
be “an incredibly useful tool that improves our lives”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#121212">‘Evaristo
described some commands she had fed ChatGPT, including
coming up with a sequel to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway,
writing a love poem and penning a short story in the style
of Evaristo herself, the result of which she called “awful
and a little embarrassing”. The author said that though the
technology is “nascent”, its “potential to improve is
exponential”, adding that a worst case scenario would be
that “we stop thinking for ourselves and slowly become
self-lobotomised”.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/12/royal-society-of-literature-aims-to-broaden-representation-as-it-announces-62-new-fellows__;!!KGKeukY!1lNgx8datrRe3fZHDD1AmmQxdfA66RqfqfYyDPUngsjwRaXXqklz6FWVjPywkm7fKZRufn_JrxXnqT-x-fQlKth6IVx48tpmq8uAqLj0$" moz-do-not-send="true">Royal Society of Literature aims to
broaden representation as it announces 62 new fellows |
Books | The Guardian</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jane<o:p></o:p></p>
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