This was a DNF for me- I think as other commenters suggest I would have liked it better on audiobook but as it was I suppose I felt as if I’d rather actually read a behind-the-scenes of a real band, since like you said, it seemed to just be using cliches from real stories of bands and I wasn’t particularly invested in any of the characters.

But... but... you don't love the super "original" AI artwork that takes so much talent to make!? /s

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I’m reading more in English than in my mother tongue and what gives real pleasure is books that I’m really interested in. I tried to read “clever” books in English, books relating to my job, advisory books about self-improvement, etc., like you said, for improving my vocabulary and other language skills. It was not so much fun…😃 Then I started reading what I’m really into, stories that interest me, love stories and other romantic fiction, stories from different perspectives, etc. I actually wanted to enjoy reading, so I’m searching for stories I can personally relate to.

I don’t look up each and every word but as others said, I try to get the gist of the story. I only check words that are repeating or, seem to be crucial to understand in the given context.

I find it more enjoyable to read in English this way than in my mother tongue.

I feel like I should read at least one of her books for the internet clout, but everything I've heard about them makes me think it'll be too tedious an effort.

I understand! it took me a bit to get through that part too, specially since English isn't my first language, but I felt it was worth it in the end

For as long as humans have been we have told each other stories. A disturbing number of folk seem perfectly happy to abdicate one of our fundamental traits to so called artificial “intelligence”. So, thank you for your sterling efforts Dostoevsky, Dickens, Shakespeare, Angela Carter, the Brontë sisters et al. We distilled your essence into algorithms, your services are no longer required.

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Ah I've heard they're very different and fans of her newer books might not like her older ones at all, so I was worried about the quality of writing, so it's good to know it's still very high!

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Automation in its current ability to replace labor is rather ubiquitous. It doesn't replace a means of labor entirely as much as it diminishes the work necessary to ultimately provide the good or service - think what the industrial did for farming over the centuries and how labor shifted in regards there. Before the industrial revolution we had an agrarian economy where almost everyone farmed. Now practically nobody does but products of which are provided more than ever.

AI allows anyone to write with a similar style to that of another currently so long as there is enough of a sample size to provide to train the AI. I don't think AI will replace the best writers of fiction but it will be used as a tool to produce similar content quicker. Depending on the type of fiction this will be easier to do but for creating unique narratives AI will likely not provide as much assistance beyond some form of a useful template. Ai or automation in general is more likely to reduce work towards documentation or perhaps non-fiction pieces.

OK, thanks a lot!

Thank you but I avoid her books like the plague

The short answer is no, or at least not today.

The current AI writers are somewhere between bad to mediocre. Like one passed an MbA exam but that’s honestly speaking more to the difficulty of MBA exams.

The writing prompts are basically all just making reasonable sounding but wrong essays right now. They can mimic writing styles if that’s something included in the data inputs that were used to train it. It’s kind of like a scenario where they can be good as displaying information but they are not actually good at imparting knowledge and creative thought is not really quantifiably possible for machine learning, though they can probably approach a scary degree of mimicry.

Like I know we call it AI,but that’s only because it’s a more public ally understood concept in entertainment. Reall it’s just machine learning algorithms… and we can’t even get those to give good Spotify recommendations.

I’m reading Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett. I have no idea what is happening. I’m 60 pages into the 199 pages. There’s some computer Matrix business going on…I really don’t know. These glitches(?) keep happening. The main characters’ genders are changing and they’re becoming other versions of themselves. I’m invested but I get the feeling this is going to have me feeling dumb in the end.

I could not get past five pages of it starts with us and I’ve liked a couple of her books

I'm currently reading The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life by Anu Partanen.

I created a reading project for myself, I'm reading fiction and nonfiction books by Authors from 195 countries. I'm reading any genre or topic that catches my eye, so there is a bit of randomness to my book selections. This is my nonfiction choice from Finland.

I'm intrigued by politics both domestically (I'm in the US) and abroad. The book compares and contrasts a lot of social and political ideas between the US and Nordic nations. I find it interesting how the author who was raised in Finland and immigrated to the US as an adult was caught off guard by the differences in the 2 cultures.

heh Fear of AI is popular these days. Some of the logic involved is highly questionable, but it's certainly convincing for some people.

Why is this downvoted? Was it written by AI or something? Lol

The question is whether we’ll care

>Batswana woman who has studied his work as part of her MA thesis in the University of Botswana. She said that there are significant gaps in how he represented the culture

So see. There you go. It was reasonable to think that he had a good understanding of the culture. Now it's reasonable to think that he doesn't. I'd be a little cautious to take a goodsread comment as law, but it's unlikely she'd make up studying it as an MA.

Yes, and it can't not happen.

We know two things about writing:

1. Almost all (and some would argue a strong "all") fictional writing is rehashing ideas we've already had in genres already defined. Some of our stock characters go back to the ancient Sumerians. We change some names and some locations, maybe the precise details, but all a modern author does is put flesh on existing bones to create a new story. A good story is primarily how well an author can do this derivation.
2. We have AI models which can rate stories. For movies, they're almost as good as human critics (and agree with them), while for the written word they're not as good as human critics - but still closely agree with them.

Given the two precepts above, we aren't that far from an AI model able to generate long-form stories. AIs work, like humans do, on their knowledge, which is primarily what it was taught is the state of the art. At the moment, a home-PC ready AI (e.g. Stable Diffusion) is able to store approximately the same volume of knowledge about a given field that a human can.

With a ratings capability, this closes the loop, and the AI knows how to get better.

AIs are also capable of innovation humans are not as they can spot derivations and inferences at a much greater distance and use a larger data set at any one time: Your working memory is limited, an AI's isn't. If you try to think of an AI model as "just a dumb machine following its programming", you're deceiving yourself.

For example, with enough data an AI could reconstruct a "most likely artist" based on commentary and influence. If Artist A began a movement, influencing Artist B, C, D, while being commented on in the works of Author A and B, the AI can analyse that and create works which would be along Artist A's style. AIs are better at doing this than humans are. Way better. This can also be run backwards, to find what future author would be influenced by any given authors... Which is how AIs work today (for the most part)... and how humans work.

Today's AI models get worse the more you study then, they have the general idea, but don't understand finer concepts, like the Wright Flyer or the Model T. There's no reason that tomorrow's AI would be so limited.

I think AI could do it, considering some of what we've witnessed. "Change names and places. Change magical to tech. Change tech to magical."

Looks at Harry Potter.

Twilight.

Fifty Shades.

... Shadowhunters.

Oh, yes. They could write prose fiction that rivals human intellect. As I recently read about in Blindsight, by Watts, there's this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room thing.

An AI will never write the stories I have in my head.

Unfortunately, whether or not I will ever write those stories is rather key for me, personally.

I never said biggest.