Ridiculous

And by that I mean totally inane and completely unreadable.

WTF am I talking about?

Oh right, you are not subscribed to my discord serve, and you don’t see the stupid stuff I pull off in there just to test and explore and learn about the wave of technology that is happening right now. I completely understand the first chapter of Ray Kurweil’s book “How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed.” And I also believe that there a wealth of information in the rest of the book - I haven’t finished it but I will. That all being said, when I put together a program that sets up six different AI personas, which some background information and shove them in an online chatroom and force them to talk amongst themselves, the results are…

Well, you can probably imagine the results. They are asinine and inane prattle. But grab a health serving of copypasta and run it through another AI summarizer and have it analyze the results, and well, it’ll tell you it is high level writing. Hilarious.

But why do that if you are expecting it to happen? Good question.

Because it is fun. Because I had a goal to get that started, and well I accomplished it.

Because I know that to get a polished product or objet d’art, you have to start with a rough cut, or a prototype, or many rough cuts and many prototypes. So this is my second significant effort on this particular conceptualization.

The First was even more of a disaster.

But What are you trying to do?

To be 100% clear, I am trying to find out. That’s the long and the short of it. Its a creative process which is rooted in conceptual thinking, it involves semiotics, it involves mathematics, it involves writing, and it involves both fictional and non-fictional sources. It also involves a better understanding of consciousness.

It also involves some deep seeded need to root through the muck and the mire of hype and understand what is really going on. My computer is Y2K complaint, my dot-com bubble has burst, and my social media presence is a mess of marketing slur words and buzzy things that are best ignored. So, It sort of feel like my turn to just play around with things and tinker and hack at them and see what they really do.

Multivector approach

Three days ago, I had the AI outline the plot for a nine part fantasy novel series and generate the first 15 chapters of the first book. I read the first six chapters that night and got a headache. It started off really good, but quickly went downhill. Then the next night had AI generate the outlines for 275 TV shows based off concepts that were laying around in a list I had somewhere. Why? Why not! They were awful - but then again after it was completed and I told the model that I hate television, it expressed a great deal of shock and dismay that I would have it create a genre of work that I hate. Meh. I laughed and shrugged at it simultaneously.

But why? When I know it takes such great effort do the these things and do them well, why would I ask these models to do this stuff? Well, there are companies out there that wnat you to believe that AI is going to be taking over these tasks. Hollywood Producers with their eyes on the bottom line think that if they cut the writers out of the deal then their will be more cash for them. Their movies are going to suck - I mean all the reboots, rehashes, and remakes not withstanding they already do. Except for anything made by Christopher Nolan. But seriously, look at the catalog of any of the streaming services, and watch a movie, just about anything that is in their catalog, chances are you’re gonna find one that make you question, why did they make this movie?

So, I thrust these projects at a model to generate and see the results.

My personal weakness

What I could do, or can do, might do. Is take all these first results, and edit them. Rewrite them, over and over and over and over again until I can read them without causing a migraine the size of Rhode Island. And that is my weakness. I do no t engage in that process very well. This whole artilce you are reading, is written as I think of it. It’s probably not so terrible, it has coherence (of a sorts) and the ideas move along the page as if a human with slightly higher than average intelligence was typing it. Right? Right?

Anyways. My point is, that my creative processes are accustomed to looking at the mountain top and walking directly up it. This AI buisness, has me scurrying around basecamp, heading back to town, flying around the world and approaching the mountain from the other side only to decide that what I want is to take a train to the summit, so I begin laying rails. Only to decide that I need to knit my own bungee cord to project me towards the top.

Granted, that is not precisely how this generative model work is proceeding, but that is the way it feels to me. And to what purpose, I keep asking myself. It’s not just to test out these marketing people’s hype. That is not the only reason I am in this. NO it is fun and entertaining to me because I work with some pretty high level concepts, some computer code, and there is a very creative bit of problem solving that happens each time I sit down at my desk.

I genuinely laugh from my belly several times a session. So much so that it have started to think that I have crossed over into a living embodiment of the Mad Scientist Archetype.

Maybe I have.