June 10, 2023
"In a world where widely available AI thingummies such as ChatGPT can generate a 90,000-word 'thriller about a bloke with a tough British name racing against time to cut through some red tape'..."
"'... about something vaguely nuclear, written in the style of Sir Michael Caine' at the touch of a button, it is terrific to know that Sir Michael has gone to the trouble of writing such a thing himself, with his own hand.
His publisher says he is 'bursting with ideas for fiction' which is good news, because when a chap is 90 years old and at the start of a seven-book deal then you want him at least to have the ideas for each one ready as soon as possible (talk about 'race against time')."
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The ghost in the machine identify as a fiction writer?
James Comey has a new “existential threat” to worry about.
He’s 90?
Yeah.....that is three lies hiding behind the same period. Impressive!
Chat can't do a 90,000 word novel. Not yet, anyway, but it sure could help a guy write one, if the guy has lots of ideas to feed it. If you try to get Chat to write a story, it usually just ends it in four paragraphs sewn up neatly.
I love the whining. "When it was John Henry, the steel-driving man racing against the track laying machine, well, that was cool, because it wasn't my job that the machines came for."
He'd cut through red tape fast if he brought in an assassin.
AI threatening your rice bowl? Lean to code... oh wait, davinci-codex-002 already does that...
Actually, they withdrew that one, seems like it created a lot of problems, they didn't update it, they withdrew it. So you can still learn to code, if you don't mind the risk that you will be obsoleted by the time you are ready for employment.
So not "co-authored" by James Patterson?
A human creation vs a human-derived correlation.
So, as an experiment, I asked AI to write me an input loop to accept keyboard input in Python, kind of a first day of class type of thing. The first time it wrote one that included code that could never logically execute, and a comment that made no sense to explain it, and the second time I asked it to do it, it did it correctly.
Go figure. Good thing that novels don't have to make sense.
Caine was good in A Shock to the System (1990) by Andrew Klavan, back when Klavan was clever.
All Michael Caine need do is rewrite some of his Len Deighton scripts from the 1960s. Nobody will remember Harry Palmer these days.
actually there is a remake of the ipcress files on bbc or acorn,
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