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FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH CHATgpt. i'm officially wow'd (me!) ~topps, cnf writer & poet

 -first heard about it from my son..   who shared it was okay to share during job interviews that you used chatgpt..     

-heard about it from some friends, who mentioned/watched episodes about chatgpt on cbs sunday morning show, 

-came up again in recent conversations with friends..

and so, today

finally gave it a personal go.

sharing here my initial reactions/assessments   -keeping in mind i am a creative non fiction writer & poet

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the most recent poem i wrote and posted was for small paws cremations

poems have different origins..    some demand to be written  -and there is no publisher waiting, no deadline, no one asked, or needed..     they just kind of make themselves known in my mind/heart and i will sit down with a pen and paper and honor what i'm experiencing..

this particular poem was requested

so, in order to write it, i did 3 primary things:   visited their website and read each page..    did some research in the industry at large, and sat with memories from my own personal experience of saying that hard goodbye to pets throughout the years..

i am very pleased with the results; pleased with the poem itself.  it took a couple days.. drafting.. and then reorganizing certain lines of the poems; adjusting vocabulary

and for me, as a writer, the placement, the spacing, the font, the punctuation (or lack of)

it is very specific.

how it looks,  aesthetically speaking, on a page

this then, became my natural first experience with chatgpt...     having heard you could give it some key words, themes, and it would write a poem for you

and i have to say!

not bad chatgpt, (which is synonymous with crowdsourcing unknown number of documents/data from the world wide web and then editing and producing a succinct body of work related to...)

                          * additional caveat, that the online sourcing the chatgpt does  -does not distinguish between fact/fiction; has no 'discerning' editor when aggregating information

still; 

on the pro side:   it spit out a result fast as a computer can calculate 2+2;  it stayed true to the overall theme; it is, in fact, a poem, and i'm not so certain, anyone untrained could distinguish between the poem being written by a human poet, vs. aggregated/edited source from the online world; AI

on the con side:   it reads a little generic-y; it did not honor 'free form' as a style, and generated a predictable every other line rhyming version of a poem; all left justified with traditional line spacing

on the other side:   hallmark can safely produce many more cards in record-breaking time!

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i can easily see how helpful chatgpt is for anyone..  to help shape up an essay, to find that just write word for a report, to help kick start a written piece, or provide an elegant close

what you ask it to do; how you ask, is very key

collaborative teacher/student flip-flop experience..   the better you understand how to ask for results in a way that matches with its programming; the better result you will get

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i am in the current process of writing another poem.  this one came to me..  that is; no one is asking me to write it; no deadlines; no publisher, etc.    -organic origins:

 i said something about hopping in the shower.. that lead to 'a poem about daily exercises! that aren't really exercises, but sound like..

and i asked my sister, brother, husband to chime in, by giving some additional examples:

hop in the shower

jump start the day

bend the rules

stretch a dollar

race the clock

run errands

etc.

and i have a list of 'exercises' but they have not been put in the form of a poem yet

so, 

experimented with what chatgpt might come up with..    and again, we have a rhyming poem, which touches on the theme, but does not successfully capture/convey the play on the words..

still, 

i'm impressed.

and then, asked about the distinction between flesh and spirit..

and then, asked for a one panel comic on arts/crafts..

it is not perfect, 

but i am officially wow'd.

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the thing to keep in mind as we continue toward AI as a helper tool; as a do-this-for-me tool, 

is to consider 'the joy of process'    -the education, experience, growth that process teaches us, that cannot be achieved any other way   [in fact, 'pain of process' yields character building, educational, enriching experiences that cannot be achieved any other way]

i just textured/painted some walls..    i long for and love texture! (in this flat screen world... give me texture!),   -what fun mud-slinging and texturing walls..    painting walls, mixing colors, adjusting, 

and, 

i'm sure you could just press a button and a crossword puzzle could be filled in   -write.

you can press a button and get something done

but at what cost?

perhaps, CHATgpt, AI,   -is no threat at all, it is more like a dishwasher vs. hand washing..   a car-wash..   a vacuum    a car vs. walking or a horse..

we have cars.

but sometimes we still choose to walk, or ride a horse.    for good reason.

more later. 

amen. 

posted by SANDRA HARRISON KAY @ 4:01 PM