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Google’s LaMDA chatbox and computer sentience – Why no computer will ever think

Google’s LaMDA chatbox and computer sentience – Why no computer will ever think

by jeffrey | Jun 17, 2022 | Non-fiction

You may have heard about the Google software engineer who last week told the Washington Post that the Google chatbox named LaMDA had spawned sentience. (A chatbox is simply a computer program designed to interact with humans either by text or verbally. They are used...

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3 Shorts

Here are three more shorts written in under 15 minutes each at meetings with a Writer's Group I belong to. 1. Write about your favorite character in literature entering a library or book store (John Grady Cole, the young protagonist from All The Pretty Horses) The...

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11/19/24 Prompt: Write about something you've never done before. (15 minutes) Grayson sat in the kitchen in his boxers and moth-worn undershirt with a fresh cup of coffee, alternately blowing gently across the steaming surface and slurping a tiny sip, risking searing...

My AI pledge to you

I want to make a statement and a promise to my friends and family, and to all my readers: I have never used and promise never to use AI to write or even enhance my fiction. My short stories, poems and novels will always be 100% original from my own noodle. (I use an...

The Parable of the Lesbian and the Christian Nationalist

The Mystic told this story: Two people went up to the holy grounds to pray, a Christian nationalist and a lesbian. The first stood by himself with his hands held up to the sky and said, “Lord, I thank you that you have made me upright and holy, not like this lesbian....

Start a Book Club

Last month, when I wrote here exhorting everyone everywhere to take up reading again, I meant it. I hope you, if reading has fallen off your radar, if it has been choked and throttled and stomped by social media into a whimpering orphan like Tiny Tim begging for food,...