I asked chat GPT…
…to complete a very abstract poem I wrote called ‘Disappearance’.
I thought I’d share it’s response.
Artificial Intelligence is going to have a huge impact on nearly every aspect of life. Perhaps the most disconcerting aspect is it’s accelerated rate of development – now a.i. is involved in building its own future iterations.
In just 12 months a.i. has gone from dodgy image creation to near photographic perfection, and now it can clone voices with a 5 second sample. Video production is rapidly advancing in realism too…
Disappearance.
What might you see if you didn’t look?
Or hear, if you didn’t listen?
Could you watch the thinkers thoughts?
(You believe are yours.)
Effervescence reflections illuminated from within.
And take this light beyond.
So all is seen, by looking not.
Yet this hall of mirrors,
Both vast and small,
Is phantasmal and beguiles its existence.
A kind of baddy.
Or shiny dark.
Perfect for sweet deception.
Chat GPT’s response….
Certainly! Here’s a subsequent verse to the original poem:
**Reappearance.**
What might you find if you forgot to search?
Or grasp, if you never reached?
Could the whispers of the unseen
Be louder in the silence?
A flicker in the void reveals itself,
Not by force, but by release.
The mirrors fade—yet nothing’s lost,
For what’s real remains untouched.
This game of shadows, now dissolved,
A tender glow emerges clear,
Neither bright nor dark,
But softly true.
A perfect balm for open eyes.
A.I. and the Wordbotherers.
Authors, illustrators, programmers, actors, film production teams and many other professions face a huge threat from A.I. Here at wordbotherers we wonder how the future will look for any of us.
A.I. is not sentient, yet, but all indications are that we might have Artificial General Intelligence by the end of the decade. Even the current models seem to be approaching human level of reasoning.
We might be fiddling whilst Rome burns yet as lowly bards perhaps this is our job. We hope you’ll join us as we observe this very interesting period of time.
Simon.
