From the series of classic literature vs the future… All The Rubbish of a Great City Part 1: No Sun Ever Since That Day Dear Farewell You may be glad to see your letter of 6th April last from me. You are still in the good humour of the last time, and I Continue Reading
Stanley Lying in his Lap – classic literature
Part of the classic literature vs artificial intelligence (so-called) game…check out the blog index… Stanley Lying in his Lap His face was almost as pale as his fur and the top part of his ears were slightly raised above the shoulder blades. “Oh, God, what’s happened to me?” he said. “How on Earth have Continue Reading
Why Don’t Cannibals Eat Clowns?
Part of the text generation game series – see blog index. This is not from an old story, I was experimenting with putting jokes and a bit of text into the generator. My new novel due soon has ‘clowns’ in it. Why don’t cannibals eat clowns? 1 Because cannibalism doesn’t produce the same health benefits Continue Reading
Fake news and Occupations – Poets and Scientists – it’s debateable
Fake news and Occupations Visit Index page SUMMARY – Artists and Report writers A visible effect in a boxplot of the data is that the two highest word counts were from Artists and Report Writers. Remember artists have to fill up a lot of grant forms. See Boxplot explanation for how they work (also shows Continue Reading
Fake News – what do real writers think about it? AI research
I examined in August 2020 research (UAL London see credits) what happens when writers use a computer text generator to write articles, giving them only an image prompt. This had 3 text generation and editing experiments, followed by 6 questions. In these blogs I’m presenting some early findings in an informal way. There is a summary Continue Reading
Archive of Digital Art ADA
Added to the Geoff Davis section on the Archive of Digital Art, a site for artists and organisations. Visit ADA Geoff Davis here btw there are three ‘Geoff Davis artists’ in the UK alone!
Festival UK 2020 for Creative Computing Institute University Arts London
There’s just been an announcement about the exciting #FestivalUK2022. Professor Grierson (my research director) is part of this, with Creative Computing Institute, CCI UAL. 30 creative teams have been selected to take part in the forthcoming festival of creativity in the R&D Project phase. #STEAM – science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics. More news on as Continue Reading
Stats explanation – boxplots
BOXPLOTS or ‘box-and-whisker’ plots Go to Index of AI research I will try to explain what the boxplot, a visual summary, or graphic visualisation of data, means by showing actual data. [If required – BACK to blog ‘People get emotional – text generation’ in my 2020 study] This plots data for Occupation (eg, Other, Student, Continue Reading
People get emotional – text generation with real writing – computer AI research
In August 2020 research (UAL, see credits) I examined what would happen if and when writers use a computer text generator to write articles, giving them only an image prompt. Go to Index of AI research Joy, Fear, Anger, Sadness – emotion charts are after this introduction. Can text generation help the human writing process? Continue Reading
Computer-Human Hybrid AI Writing and Creative Ethics
Introduction This blog is about my 2020 research into computer text generation and the effects on professional ands amateur writers. I am working on this topic at the University of the Arts London (UAL CCI, Dir. Mick Grierson). No-one has asked creatives or writers what they think of the new ‘AI’ systems that generate readable Continue Reading