Tag: fiction

• Using GPT-4 to measure the passage of time in fiction

  June 1, 2024

  Language models have been compared to parrots, but the bigger danger is that they turn people into parrots. A student who asks for “a paper about Middlemarch,” for instance, will… more ›

• The Great Fiction of AIThe strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fictionTwo Roads Diverged in a Tunnel, and I—I Printed Out a Semi-automated NovelUncanny NovelistsHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Author

  July 22, 2022

  On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series about a detective witch in central Florida,… more ›

• A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History on Wikipedia

  July 15, 2022

  Posing as a scholar, a Chinese woman spent years writing alternative accounts of medieval Russian history on Chinese Wikipedia, conjuring imaginary states, battles, and aristocrats in one of the largest… more ›

• Hour One raises $5M Seed to generate AI-driven synthetic characters from real humans

  August 18, 2020

  All of the people pictured above are real, but what you are seeing are synthetically-generated versions of their real selves. And they can be programmed to say anything. https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/hour-one-raises-5m-seed-to-generate-ai-driven-synthetic-characters-from-real-humans/ more ›

• This apartment design predicts a dystopian future of hunting and gathering for food and using canoes to get around — see inside

  February 9, 2020

  “Mitigation of Shock, Singapore” shows a vision of domestic life 50 years out, when rising ocean levels have flooded cities, and people are forced to grow their own foods and… more ›

• Your Favorite Stars, Now Playing in Your Ears

  September 16, 2019

  In fiction podcasts, screen and stage actors get to play parts Hollywood is too risk-averse to offer, with the added perk of no need to sit for makeup. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/arts/fiction-podcasts-gimlet-carrie-coon.html more ›

• Here are the Biggest Fiction Bestsellers of the Last 100 Years

  December 3, 2018

  Here are the Biggest Fiction Bestsellers of the Last 100 Years As the year draws to a close, some of us like to look forward, and some of us backward—and… more ›

• Amazon has everything it needs to make massively popular algorithm-driven fiction

  November 17, 2018

  Amazon has everything it needs to make massively popular algorithm-driven fiction Amazon is the Voldemort of book events—”our friends in Seattle,” the ominous euphemism goes. The Seattle-based company is famous… more ›

• ​Sgt. Augmento

  August 18, 2016

  ​Sgt. Augmento » The robots took all the jobs. I was never gonna have one. Personally, I was okay about my idleness. Happily doing nothing-much, that had always been my… more ›

• Herzog’s Minnesota Declaration: Defining ‘ecstatic…

  June 23, 2016

  Herzog’s Minnesota Declaration: Defining ‘ecstatic truth’ | Roger Ebert’s Journal | Roger Ebert When the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis ran a month-long tribute to Werner Herzog in 1999, I… more ›