LLMs exhibit strong script-writing capabilities, crafting roles, settings, and dialogues based on extensive training. While they may not fully compose three-act plays, they excel in simulating dialogue and can assist in script creation. Scripts play a vital role in AI and cognitive science, offering efficient ways to convey information and understand various contexts, echoing the importance of scripts in language, cognition, urban contexts, and AI script writing.
Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence
“The words made me do it”
In Neo-Victoria, Detective Hayes confronts Dr. Marlowe, who insists that ancient alien language compelled her to commit murder. This fictional scenario reflects the power of language to influence actions. Language, as a generative force, shapes urban dynamics and societal behavior, as explored by influential thinkers like Foucault and Heidegger. Orwell’s 1984 exemplifies language’s capacity to manipulate behavior.More
AI and deconstruction
The early days of the internet saw scholars like George Landow and Jay Bolter draw parallels between hypertext and language. They utilized Jacques Derrida’s philosophy to explain the success of large language models, emphasizing how written text precedes speech. Derrida’s concepts of intertextuality, différance, authorship, and active reading resonate with the functioning of these models.More
Derrida on AI
The radical philosopher Jacques Derrida challenged the conventional belief that speech precedes writing, arguing that writing is fundamental to language’s structure and meaning. Current large language models, reliant on text, support Derrida’s theory, emphasizing the enduring and analyzable nature of written language compared to the ephemeral and context-dependent qualities of speech. (Word count: 50)More
Voice chat
The latest incarnation of large language models (e.g. ChatGPT) generates convincing spoken responses to spoken input. You can talk (as well as type) to your AI, as if on a smartphone. It’s called “voice chat,” and I used OpenAI’s new voice chat app on my smartphone to enter into a conversation clarifying certain aspects of…More
AI scripts a debate about urban glare
I’m testing the ability of large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, to conduct AI to AI conversations that in some way parallel how two people might work through a problem together. I’ve discovered that it’s not necessary to contrive a condition where two AIs talk to each other as in my previous post, or where…More
Manufacturing debate
I used copy-paste to implement a conversation between chatGPT and Claude. The two AI models were primed with the same warning about an apocalyptic future of AI-AI interactions. They agreed on everything and simply added further facts and opinions about warnings, the need for caution, legislative measures and more research on how to make AI…More
Pond algae: an inter-AI conversation
What happens when AI chatbots talk to one another? There are numerous transcripts, videos and reviews online of such inter-AI conversations — some real, fake or doctored, sometimes to demonstrate the shortcomings or absurdities of conversational AI. I am interested in whether such inter-AI conversations can lead to anything like collaborative problem solving. As a…More
Thought as conversation
Cogitating, rehearsing ideas in the mind, is a highly advantageous byproduct of our ability to converse with one another. That is, the ability of human beings to think things through silently and privately has developed along with the human ability to communicate with one another in language. Some theorists even assert that conversation comes first;…More
Can an AI only think “fast”?
In his popular book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman identifies how any individual is capable of making snap judgements, and with obvious advantage. That kind of “fast” thinking is necessary and appropriate in many cases. Jumping out of the way of an oncoming car, reaching for the chicken at a finger buffet, or raising…More