Should We Be Worried about Chat GPT?
Last winter the chattering classes were all chattering about this: the online language model that can churn out coherent essays in a matter of seconds. In November Chat GPT was made available for free on the Open AI website, so anyone could try it out for themselves. I did so, and wrote about the experience […]
Three Ways to Say “I Love You”
Here’s your problem: love is such a huge subject that’s hard to get a grip on. The solution is, start with small things and everyday details. Here are three ways you might do it, with “poem starters” included. (Thanks to Jack Prelutsky, whose book Read a Rhyme, Write a Rhyme furnished the idea of poem […]
Sweatin’ the Small Stuff
Or, Details: How to Find ’em, How to Use ’em Use details! is an exhortation every fifth-grader knows–that is, if his teacher knows anything about how to teach writing. It’s practically a mantra with me. Details put a reader into the setting, smelling the popcorn or feeling the sultry air or hearing the sizzle! of […]
Point of View, Part Two: Perspective
In our previous post, we talked about empathy and “feeling with” another person’s point of view. But POV is not just an individual’s emotional response to a given situation, but the angle from which they see it. We call this perspective. Think about point of view from these two perspectives: It goes deeper: perspective involves […]