If there's just one thing AI could improve, how about "typing" on a mobile keyboard.

Private AI Chatbot for #fiction and #nonfiction authors, which answers questions about #writing & #publishing anonymously and has an option to have a human reply to you as well: bit.ly/s4aAnonymousAI…

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A lot of folks think ChatGPT will kill original writing. Apps like ChatGPT will make original writing insanely profitable. The better writer you are, the better instructions you will be able to write for customizing chatbots. The better you customize chatbots the money you

Accelerate or don't accelerate isn't the only discussion to have, and over a century of work on the study of technology teaches us that technology is not an independent thing, but rather interacts with people, and we interact with it, in ways that shape its meaning and impact.

OpenAI released their own Prompt Engineering Guide. The guide is useful for anyone trying to maximize LLMs. I'd recommend it. Here's the 6 strategies they outline for getting better results from GPT-4:

I write better than AI, so I don’t use AI writing in my new book (or my posts). Yet AI made my book both much easier to write & much better overall. I wrote what it means to be a cyborg author (and why you might want to pre-order my book, Co-Intelligence) oneusefulthing.org/p/i-cyborg-usi…

What makes art "great"? Connections. This paper examines 500,000 artists & finds long-term success is determined by the prestige of their first exhibits & how connected those galleries are. It is hard to break into fame if you don’t start with high status science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Have to wonder how much longer audiobooks will last.

Hmm. I'm writing a book this way.

Andi ranks #1 on a new SOTA AI search benchmark. Here's how we did it with just $3M in funding 🚀

The Sam Altman Interview You know him as the CEO of OpenAI — but he's also an avid writer. We spoke not once but twice about how Sam captures ideas, clarifies his thinking, edits his writing, decides what to work on, and uses ChatGPT. Timestamps: 1:47 Will LLMs change how we

Hard to believe. Chapter 6 of Italo Calvino's 1980 book "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" anticipated the computer written books that AI might deliver soon.

What I would add to this already eye-opening story: Many high school kids have never seen a *textbook.* The very idea that concepts can be laid out in a linear argument or presented cumulatively—whether it’s history or math—is foreign to them. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Amazing that I can drop the text of Dear Mustafa into NotebookLM, press a button, and out pops a great review podcast of the book! youtube.com/watch?v=ehBsmC…

To get a feeling of the future of AI, you should pay attention to the labs but also to the performance artists. This sounds cryptic but I mean it literally.

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