Co-writing With Artificial Intelligence With Yudhanjaya Widjeratne

We all use tools as part of the writing process. Other books and internet resources for research, Scrivener for writing the first draft, and a computer for typing or dictating into, as well as editing tools like ProWritingAid. But what if you could use AI tools to help inspire the writing process?

In this episode, science fiction author Yudhanjaya Widjeratne talks about how he used artificial intelligence to co-write his novel, The Salvage Crew.

16:43 - Interview starts

In the intro, I talk about how I've been playing with Inferkit using my own books to train the Natural Language Generation model. More on AI writing tools here. Google announced a model 6x bigger than GPT-3, and Eleuther.ai wants to create an open-source version.

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Yudhanjaya Wijeratne is the award-nominated author of science fiction novels including Numbercaste and The Inhuman Race, as well as a Senior Researcher on Data, Algorithms, and Policy for an Asian think tank based in Sri Lanka. His latest novel, The Salvage Crew, features humans working alongside an AI overseer and was written with the help of AI tools.

How code is less like math and more like art
Co-writing a book with AI tools
What does it mean for art if art can be automated and humans can't perceive the difference?
Why the fear of machines taking over may be unfounded
How working with AI made the writing process joyful and exciting
How copyright might impact machine learning and ways around that. More in my solo episode on Copyright Law and Blockchain in an Age of AI
How a financial model of authors sharing data might work
Would traditional publishers potentially use the data they have in the copyrighted work they own and control to train specialist genre models?
Why technology is too important to be left to the technologists and why we need to get involved in the conversation and design of the future

You can find Yudhanjaya Widjeratne at http://www.yudhanjaya.com or twitter.com/yudhanjaya

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