Advoken's Blog

Artificial intelligence is both promising and frightening.  

Promising, yes, because of the time it saves in completing fairly routine tasks.  Frightening, also, because it seems to replace humanity with a cliched remembrance, likely threatening to foster laziness and lack of imagination. 

As an experiment, I wrote a short story of nearly 5,000 words in less than an hour, using AI.  The process still requires some imagination; I had to supply the robot with a simple plot or a lead sentence for it to do its work.  What resulted was, I think, a reasonably decent story with an interesting, I hope, plot line. 

I hope some of you will read the story and let me know what you think.  I have my own ideas about whether the process is worth using again.  Let me hear yours. 

You may read the story by clicking here.