I watched and listened to the first five minutes so far (will listen to the rest later, or maybe go and read the text).
It's good. You have a good, clear voice, and the pace is just right. I am not a listen person myself, more a read person, though I have listened to a few audiobooks just to sample them, and found some to be too slow or too fast, and often way too dramatic. Listening somehow distracts my mind (maybe I am hard of 'listening'; my mind wanders or try to add its own embellishments), so I'll go and read the rest of Guide to Time Travel.
Currently reading The Bashful Courtesan and enjoying it. Great work! Keep it up, please. The world needs writers like you that the AI cannot copy (hopefully) in their eternal lifetimes.
Thanks. I was just reading something about AI. It seems there are so many people worried that it will take over writing fiction, but I don't think it will. Not unless it becomes self aware and suddenly understands emotion better than living through it. But how do you program life experience?
Even the humans haven't understood the human mind completely yet. I doubt if the AI is ever going to be 'self-aware' in a real sense as we humans are.
Speaking of self-awareness, which I assume leads to the so-called enlightenment, I often wonder if the enlightenment we attribute to those 'great souls' (the likes of the Buddha) is a complete experience in itself (kind of a singularity) or is it somewhere on a line to infinity so that theoretically there's always room for more enlightenment.
If the AI ever try to take over the world, I am sure there will be some crooked human being behind it all, pulling the strings.
Hi Ben,
I watched and listened to the first five minutes so far (will listen to the rest later, or maybe go and read the text).
It's good. You have a good, clear voice, and the pace is just right. I am not a listen person myself, more a read person, though I have listened to a few audiobooks just to sample them, and found some to be too slow or too fast, and often way too dramatic. Listening somehow distracts my mind (maybe I am hard of 'listening'; my mind wanders or try to add its own embellishments), so I'll go and read the rest of Guide to Time Travel.
Currently reading The Bashful Courtesan and enjoying it. Great work! Keep it up, please. The world needs writers like you that the AI cannot copy (hopefully) in their eternal lifetimes.
Thanks. I was just reading something about AI. It seems there are so many people worried that it will take over writing fiction, but I don't think it will. Not unless it becomes self aware and suddenly understands emotion better than living through it. But how do you program life experience?
Even the humans haven't understood the human mind completely yet. I doubt if the AI is ever going to be 'self-aware' in a real sense as we humans are.
Speaking of self-awareness, which I assume leads to the so-called enlightenment, I often wonder if the enlightenment we attribute to those 'great souls' (the likes of the Buddha) is a complete experience in itself (kind of a singularity) or is it somewhere on a line to infinity so that theoretically there's always room for more enlightenment.
If the AI ever try to take over the world, I am sure there will be some crooked human being behind it all, pulling the strings.