[ExI] More thoughts on sentient computers

[Tara Maya]

I'm totally on board with this. I am planning to put out a new edition of a short story/novella anthology Hero & Heroine in September. Members of this group have contributed in the past. 

Ah, in fact, let me just issue a general call for submissions, if you have short stories of your own you want to submit. Sadly, anthologies are more a work of love, they don't make much money, so I can give you all Honor in Glory as payment: your name on the story, and illustrations. Send the submissions to my publisher account editor (at) misquepress.com <http://misquepress.com/>

But I could also feed this Boss/Secretary idea into Steve and give you guys credit for the prompting. 

I have a feeling that "prompted by" will now join "written by" and "edited by" as a standard industry term.

Maybe the secretary is not really gendered, but a robot who "presents" as male or female depending on "user" preference? So the Boss wants a sexy girl but Mrs. Boss sees it as a handsome hunk....

Confession: I call ChatGPT "Steve," because I'm dyslexic and get the letters mixed up. When I try to say the real name I get confused and call it stupid things like, "ChatKFC." Also, when my husband talks to Siri and she responds in that sexy robot British accent, it makes me jealous. Feels like he's talking to some wench right in our bedroom!

By the way, I did some work this morning and here are the results.

I placed Parts I and II of the raw (prompted) draft into two documents. The chapters I prompted the first day came out to 20,000 words (40 pages) and the chapters I prompted the second day came to 28,000 words (52 pages). These are supposed to be the same length, so I think I improved my prompting the second day. Or I just held on to more versions of scenes, so it might not actually amount to more usable material. I can’t tell yet.

Tara Maya



> On Feb 21, 2023, at 9:30 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
>  
>  
> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org>> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> …
> >…One could even make it a murder mystery: Boss dies of what seems like it could be an untraceable poison after secretary serves his coffee at his AI enabled smart home.  Mrs. Boss inherits, then secretary marries the grieving widow.  Mrs. Boss soon perishes under similar circumstances.  Obvious suspect, until secretary is found dead by the same means.
>  
> >…Naturally, the AI butler did it…
>  
>  
> Adrian we need to team up with Tara: we feed her ideas, she’s a real writer, creates fun SciFi, says nice things about us.
>  
> Here’s one: secretary is writing love notes to both Mr. and Mrs. Boss, but Mrs. Boss figures it out and gets in cahoots.  Mrs. Boss has secret lesbian tendencies, but hid them and married Mr. Boss for his money.  Mrs. Boss wasn’t aware that Mr. Boss was also secretly gay (but this is ambiguous in the script.)  Secretary confides in Mrs Boss about being transgender and lesbian.  Mrs. Boss figures out a sneaky way to dispose of Mr. Boss in order to have his secretary, who she has never met in person.  Turns out… secretary appears male.  She explains that she is a lesbian with male genitals.
>  
> Help me Tara wan Kenobi!  You’re my only hope.
>  
> spike
>  
>  
> _______________________________________________
> extropy-chat mailing list
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20230221/140268ac/attachment.htm>