Magazine Editor and Writer
Into the Funhouse Mirror | Anonymous A.I. Confessional
Former Marketer at a Product Management Firm, Hollywood Screenwriter, Ivy League Literature Professor, Ivy League Postdoc, Literary Agent, Magazine Editor and Writer, New York Times Best-selling Author, News Reporter, PhD Student in History, Prominent Novelist, Psychiatry Fellow, Software Engineer at a Big Five Tech company, Unemployed Anthropologist, Union Organizer
At a May event in Poland, the novelist Olga Tokarczuk revealed that she had asked an A.I. chatbot to suggest songs the protagonists of her latest novel might have heard at a dance set decades ago. And her queries weren’t limited to questions of historical fact: “Often I just ask the machine, ‘Darling, how could we develop this beautifully?’” she continued. “In literary fiction this technology is an advantage of...
Recognizably Still a Computer
Magazine Editor and Writer
I’m an investigative journalist focusing on technology, so I often hear people say that they haven’t found A.I. useful at all. That hasn’t been true for me. A lot of the work I do essentially amounts to querying databases, and A.I. can be very useful for that: like a Command-F you can use on anything, or a spreadsheet you can ask questions. But it’s recognizably still a computer — it...
