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Stephen King ponders the potential for machines to learn to write as he reflects on the use of his books to train AI.
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- Stephen King's books are being used to train artificial intelligence.
- AI programmers are using computer memory to store thousands of books.
- The question is whether the AI can produce a result that is greater than the sum of its parts.
- Stephen King believes that reading is essential for learning how to write.
- The capacity of computer memory is large enough to store all of Stephen King's writings on one thumb drive.
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Stephen King reflects on the use of his books to train AI and wonders if a machine that reads can also learn to write.
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Stephen King, in response to the revelation that his books are being used to train artificial intelligence (AI), ponders whether a machine that reads can learn to write. He believes that reading is essential for learning how to write, and it seems that AI
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Stephen King: My Books Were Used
to Train AI
One prominent author responds to the
revelation that his writing is being used to coach artificial
intelligence.
By
Stephen
King
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August 23, 2023
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Self-driving cars.
Saucer-shaped vacuum cleaners that skitter hither and yon (only
occasionally getting stuck in corners). Phones that tell you where you
are and how to get to the next place. We live with all of these things,
and in some casesthe smartphone is the best examplecant live without
them, or so we tell ourselves. But can a machine that reads learn to
write?
I have said in one of my few
forays into nonfiction (
On
Writing
) that you cant learn to write unless youre a reader,
and unless you read a lot. AI programmers have apparently taken this
advice to heart. Because the capacity of computer memory is so
largeeverything I ever wrote could fit on one thumb drive, a fact that
never ceases to blow my mindthese programmers can dump thousands of
books into state-of-the-art digital blenders.
Including,
it seems, mine.
The real question is whether you get a sum thats
greater than the parts, when you pour back out.
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