How YouTube Eats the World — As 1 billion views will attest — my toddler is not alone in being obsessed with the YouTube star, Ms. Rachel. Blippi might be more familiar, as he’s crossed further into mainstream attention and has been picked up by streamers. As someone who has spent a lot of time thinking…

In my ongoing exploration of the creative potential for AI — it seems to me as though many of the short-comings of the current systems could be distilled down to a single problem: AI’s lack personality Whether it’s in telling a joke, writing a piece of fiction, or role-playing an…

A Cautionary Tale — I’ve been provoking a debate with my friends by saying “In the future, Disney loses control of its most popular IP” 1 Billion Streamers Cometh In a future of 1 Billion Streamers, which is my shorthand for an unfathomable number of individual content creators empowered by AI tools, these creators will have the means…

An Iterative Model for Creative Exploration & Prompt Discovery in LLMs — The Creative Capabilities of LLMs I’ve been spending a lot of time exploring the creative capabilities of LLMs (Large Language Models such as ChatGPT / GPT-4). While pursuing this goal, I’ve found it challenging to achieve truly original creative results; however, I’ve discovered ways to improve the overall quality of the output produced by these…

DEVS is one of my favorite sci-fi series in recent years. Spoilers ahead if you haven’t seen it yet. The premise is that they’ve been able to create a perfect simulation of reality such that you can look into the past or future with crystal clarity. …

How AI must learn to be stubbornly bad at art, if it’s ever going to be any good — I recently watched a biography about comedian George Carlin, and was struck by how his comedy went from good to great when he decided to abandon the successful formula of popular trends in comedy and found his own voice. …

I’m looking to move people who are interested purely in my investigation into AI over to my Substack: AI vs. TV My medium blog will continue to contain a variety of content, but I’m building that out as a single focus.

Here’s what I learned about an AI facilitated creative process — I’ve been documenting my efforts to better understand the creative limitations and capabilities of AI — for now, and for the fast approaching future. …

The flipside to the AI does your homework narrative — I’ve written about a few things AI doesn’t do very well on its own, namely deeply original creative work, but there is something AI does very well — writing summaries, outlines, and as it turns out, lesson plans. We live in an age when all of the information resources you…