A recent winner of the Akutagawa prize in Japan said she used chatbots to write around 5% of her novel so they’re already proving useful.

A recent winner of the Akutagawa prize in Japan said she used chatbots to write around 5% of her novel.

After 33-year-old writer Rie Kudan won the Akutagawa Prize last week, she told reporters that a small portion of her book, Tokyo-to Dojo-to (Tokyo Sympathy Tower), was lifted verbatim from ChatGPT.

“This is a novel written by making full use of a generative A.I.,” Kudan said in her acceptance speech, according to the Japan Times’ Thu-Huong Ha. “Probably about 5 percent of the whole text is written directly from the generative A.I. I would like to work well with them to express my creativity.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-award-winning-japanese-novel-was-written-partly-by-chatgpt-180983641/

What about publishing a collection of short stories, some of which have human authors and others from LLMs. You could call it, “2 truths and an AI”.

Wouldn’t it be easier to upgrade the hardware so it can keep up with updates? The article mentioned a law that requires manufacturers to offer repairs and recalls for 15 years after sale. That could be expanded to include computer hardware.

Is meta the one that downloaded all the books from anna’s archive?

How much waste is burnt in back gardens, flushed down toilets and dumped in the countryside? The article reads as if someone summarised a series of press releases and social media comments and didn’t ask any meaningful questions.

For example, we send the “recycling” to developing countries where it is burnt in primitive incinerators and contaminates the air, water, soil and food with harmful chemicals and micro plastics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPyRAcdZHDo

Because data centers are being built all over the place. Californian almonds are only being grown in California.

Thanks for sharing. It was interesting to learn something new.

No my irritation was with how it was written. Why break the rhythm when listing 3 things? Why mention Vietnam and the Philippines and then immediately move on? The writing was very disjointed.

Some of the embedded links were useful and interesting, others just went to random pages that had nothing to do with what was discussed.

A lot of countries are promoting cash again. If the infrastructure can have problems like that all by itself imagine what it would be like if there was a coordinated and deliberate strike on the server centers, towers and satellites and I’m not just talking about hackers. Bombers will fuck your shit up permanently.

Japan’s MHI, Germany’s Siemens, and GE Vernova

I’ve heard of Japan and Germany but where is GE?

A report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) notes the effect this is having in Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam and the Philippines.

What is the effect? Why bring it up if you don’t want to discuss it?

What a poorly written article. I couldn’t follow the author’s incomplete thoughts for much of it.

If your alarm clock needs an internet connection then you need an old alarm clock.

You tax dollars at work. Let’s spend a month investigating something the DA immediately shuts down.

Your primary complaint is that the police wasted their time? I’m sure they’ll get better at identifying what cases are worth pursuing with time and experience.

I love how all of facebook’s privacy settings are set to ‘use and abuse me’ and periodically get reset to such every now and again. It used to tell you what shopping your friends did, like if your boyfriend bought an engagement ring. When asked if he thought this was a good thing Zuckerberg’s answer was basically, “Yes.”

There’s a movement in Spain and people put stickers in their shop windows that say, “You can use my phone” so kids can call home without the need to carry their own phone.

This is world news. Which world capital are you talking about?

I’m criticising the headline not the article.

Oh yes those infamous left wingers like Clinton and Starmer. If only those of us on the right could have convinced them to be sympathetic to Gazans earlier!

What a weird headline. In what sense are we too early?

Check out the map men video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtBV3GgQLg8

They’re terrified that if people are allowed free time and personal wealth again there will be a 2nd hippy movement that will loudly oppose their wars and power structures.

Trains are designed to operate for 30 or more years so the turnover is slower than cars, which have an average age of 12 in USA.