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As an author, I’ve been thinking about the future and it sounds dreamy. AI is good at producing verbiage, which readers want for some reason. Humans are good at
by Swizec 4y ago
As an author, I’ve been thinking about the future and it sounds dreamy. AI is good at producing verbiage, which readers want for some reason. Humans are good at producing insight, which is the true product that readers are looking for, but don’t want to pay for (with clicks or money).
So what if the author produced a 5 bullet insight and AI expanded it into the word salad that readers want to buy? We’re getting there, lots of startups in this space.
Another aspect of why the word lettuce matters is SEO. So it feels like there may be a future where humans communicate in 5 bullet insights packaged as word salad by bots for bots.
- sroussey 4y agoWhy not have the AI produce the five points? Seems silly to have an AI write an essay and derive the main points itself, except perhaps to differentiate from another AI, but isn’t this what seeds are for?
- Swizec 4y agoBecause the AI can’t produce a novel insight (yet?). Those 5 bullets are the main points, AI can expand those into an essay. This idea comes from how you’d write any long essay, or a book. You start with an idea. Then you expand it into chapter/section titles. Then you expand into each of those into more sections. Then more. This gives you the full skeleton of what you’re trying to say and, really, already says the whole valuable part. Then you fill the rest with relatable anecdotes and other salad to make a meal and drive the point home. AI would be great at that part.