AI and Literature
https://drderekbmiller.substack.com
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This is goodreads, which means people are here for books.
Or are they?
Some people love the carnal joy of books as artifacts. The first editions, the signed copies, the covers, the smell, the way a full shelf is a promise sure to deliver.
I share that joy.
However: Books are but a technology: a way to convey a story from one mind to another across a distance of space or time or both. The oral tradition required us to be together. People could see who was doing the telling. Now, the author is away. Soon — we now have to wonder — whether there is even an author at all.
Welcome to the new world of AI where computers will craft stories and — at least for a time — either assist or compete with people.
This is why I started "AI and Literature": A blog or newsletter or substack (or whatever we're calling these things) were I discuss the evolution of this new nexus between writers and AI.
I am not uniquely qualified to discuss this, but I am unusual. I'm a social scientist (Ph.D. in international relations and social theory) and I'm an established novelist (seven critically acclaimed novels and more to come). So I'm a practitioner with some capacity to reflect. My hope is that the space becomes an opportunity to explore the topic with other writers, researchers, scholars, engineers and more so that we evolve into a rich archive on the early days of this new — if worrying — encounter.
Join me. Spread the word. Because life is what we attend to. And if we give our attention to books, we really ought to care what's behind them.
https://drderekbmiller.substack.com
— DBM, 25 June, 2024
_____________
This is goodreads, which means people are here for books.
Or are they?
Some people love the carnal joy of books as artifacts. The first editions, the signed copies, the covers, the smell, the way a full shelf is a promise sure to deliver.
I share that joy.
However: Books are but a technology: a way to convey a story from one mind to another across a distance of space or time or both. The oral tradition required us to be together. People could see who was doing the telling. Now, the author is away. Soon — we now have to wonder — whether there is even an author at all.
Welcome to the new world of AI where computers will craft stories and — at least for a time — either assist or compete with people.
This is why I started "AI and Literature": A blog or newsletter or substack (or whatever we're calling these things) were I discuss the evolution of this new nexus between writers and AI.
I am not uniquely qualified to discuss this, but I am unusual. I'm a social scientist (Ph.D. in international relations and social theory) and I'm an established novelist (seven critically acclaimed novels and more to come). So I'm a practitioner with some capacity to reflect. My hope is that the space becomes an opportunity to explore the topic with other writers, researchers, scholars, engineers and more so that we evolve into a rich archive on the early days of this new — if worrying — encounter.
Join me. Spread the word. Because life is what we attend to. And if we give our attention to books, we really ought to care what's behind them.
https://drderekbmiller.substack.com
— DBM, 25 June, 2024
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