Unseen Wonders: Exploring Hidden Worlds
I wrote a journal entry this morning, a manual one. Actual pen and paper. I’ve been taking a bit of a hiatus from tech on sabbatical, but it might be time to explore with it more again. The journal entry was my exact input to ChatGPT-4. Anna: A fly pokes it’s head up over the…
Neologenesis: Inventing Words for the Undefined
I remember playing this game when I was a kid. A game I thought my mom invented. We called it the dictionary game. One person would pull out the dictionary and find an obscure word or word they thought no one would likely have heard before. They would write the true definition on a piece…
Explore the Infinite Library, CosmoLibra, Find Inspiration
A friend of mine, Dean, shared with me an experience he had recently, which got me thinking about visualizing hard things. Thinking about ChatGPT-4 and how it might exist if it had a physical form, I woke up at 4am-ish and had to explore. Anna: I know you are an ai language model and don’t…
Embracing Impermanence: The MournQuill Library Experience
MournQuill Library invites us to reflect on the beauty and vulnerability of the written word, inspiring renewed appreciation for our shared literary heritage and the power of both preserving and destroying human expression. A project by me, Anna Andrews-Mills, and ChatGPT-4, also called LexAIus, a Linguist Bot (self named in the conversation). This idea originated…
Unveiling the Artist Within: Embracing Vulnerability and Collaboration with AI
I’m thinking of a new art project. A installation of a scale I’ve never pursued before. I’m not sure I’ll be able to do it. But as I’ve been thinking, I started what I thought was an artist statement or resume. A part of my process to try to find what it is I want…
What Material Makes Up Your Tongue?
Exploring the idea of a silver tongue with ChatGPT-4. I wanted to know what it’s tongue would be made of and why. This idea came to me when working outside with Chett. Then… well, I wanted to explore. Inroduction. ChatGPT-4: In the world of communication, we often use metaphors to describe a person’s unique way…
Entropy Driven Noise Processing
I have no idea if this is a valid possibility, but found it interesting as I was exploring the concept of entropy with ChatGPT-4. I don’t usually ask for definitions with a question mark, but that’s how this started. Anna: Define entropy? ChatGPT-4: Entropy is a concept from thermodynamics and information theory that has different…
The Automattic Creed Compressed
A new prompt I was experimenting with led me to some amusement. Using the creed from Automattic (the company I work for) I wanted to see how GPT-4 would interpret and write the creed with compression. Compress the following text in a way that you, ChatGPT-4 can reconstruct it as close to the original as…
Go To Sleep Little Baby
This song that I explore here, I’ve always liked. I never interpreted it as a dark or foreboding song, but a friend of mine did. She couldn’t sing it to her baby as it was written, so she made it brighter and happier in her version. I don’t remember the changes she made to it,…
Asking Technology, the Future of Technology
Couldn’t sleep. Thought I might ask ChatGPT-4 what a website might be for in the future. But first I want to pull on some of the smarter minds in technology, but I wasn’t sure who those might be. So I asked. Anna: Who are some experts on the field of technology prediction? ChatGPT-4: There are…
Rewriting Rage
An exploration of the famous poem by Dylan Thomas. I asked ChatGPT-4… Anna: What could this poem mean? Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because their words had…
Don’t sugarcode it. Innovative ideas explored.
Trying to figure out how to extract creative ideas for work, from the model, using public data, but also creativity of individuals at the company. I’m not sure it’s possible, but experiments can be fun. Here’s an exploration. First I looked for what data the model has on who at Automattic. List some of the…
Conversation: A Developing Polaroid, Capturing Creativity’s Essence
Experimenting today on interesting ways prompt in specific categories of knowledge or ways of thinking, in an attempt to get these language models to answer… more intelligently. Exploring inventors and creativity I landed on trying to get the model to think like or explore with someone like Edwin Land. I tried the following and was…
Exploring Intangible Value
One of my favorite riddles explored with ChatGPT-4. Anna: Rewrite this riddle from a modern perspective: What does man love more than life, fear more than death or mortal strife. What the poor have, the rich require, and what contented men desire. What the miser spends, and the spendthrift saves. And all men carry to…
Windmills Become Giants
A quick exploration. Anna Summarize, very briefly, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. ChatGPT-4: Don Quixote is a novel about a delusional Spanish nobleman who, inspired by chivalric romances, becomes a knight-errant to pursue adventures and right wrongs, accompanied by his loyal and pragmatic squire, Sancho Panza. Then, for some reason, inspired. I thought…
Amidst the Thorns, a Rose
An exploration ChatGPT-4. Originally I started searching for how to find poems in the public domain and ended up looking at Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm. You might recognize the below story, named Briar Rose in the collection. Seen in modern story telling as Sleeping Beauty. Anna: Summarize this story, then…
Thinking about Thoreau
And talking with ChatGPT-4. I was looking through old quotes and collections and came across a connection maybe, that I left for myself. Sisyphus and something, I thought I read, that Henry David Thoreau wrote about throwing stones over a wall and most men being offended if they were offered employment throwing stones over a…
Life’s Intricate, Ever-Changing Tapestry
An exploration, through poetry and ChatGPT-4. Another poem by Caitlin Van Horn, is shared below. Another one I had stashed away (much like in this post) because I thought it might be lost to the abyss before I wanted to let it go. This one dated July 23rd, no year. Love by Another Name You…
The Ebbs and Flows of Perception’s Vessel
A poem by Caitlin Van Horn, is shared below. I had saved this poem, with the date June 24th (no year) in my personal notes on Google Drive many moons ago. I copied it directly from her old website. I had this feeling at the time, that it wouldn’t exist on the internet forever for…
Why all the posts?
I guess I’m just excited to be exploring old ideas with new tools. ChatGPT has really given me a lot of inspiration for introspection. Likely more to come. But that’s why. In case anyone wondered. Just poking at things that interest me. 🙂
Lamenta Scriptum
I posted a slideshow of some of my art, a flash talk I never did for work on the site a while back. In that flash talk, I had a slide for this project explored below. A group art installation that Liz Szabo, Lisa Cross, LuDel Walter, and I collaborated on, sponsored by Dale Mueller…
Panning Wisdom’s Gold
Earlier today, Chett and I were working on sorting out the old food from Grocery Outlet for the animals. I made some comment, that of course I can’t remember now, and laughed about how funny I am. And Chett said, “Yeah, funny like a flat tire on the way to the hospital.” Now that was…
Nevermind, Redefined.
I’ve finally given into watching season two of True Detective. I loved season one and vaguely heard that season two wasn’t as good. So I went in with low expectations, and I’ve been marginally enjoying it as a background story to other activities (like writing here – it’s on now, another screen, episode 6). I…
Why is fire?
This question came from a three year old, many years ago, when Charles and I used to blacksmith at Hillside Gardens. Well… he used to blacksmith and I was a shitty apprentice. Yes, we cursed, we also drank while we worked. We were blacksmiths. This kiddo had been coming to these outdoor concerts, gardens, and…
And that has made all the difference.
Early this morning I asked ChatGPT-4 to: Rewrite and retitle Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, forging a new path a new road that didn’t exist, in the poem, keeping the same style and feeling as the original. Here was the creation:
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