Dispatch: New Community Chat; AI Tips For Hesitant Writers
A New Community Chat Feature & Practical Tips to Help Writers Learn to Use AI
Hello Friends,
How was your week? If you celebrate Easter, I hope you are enjoying the easter break.
So this week I’ve focussed on some practical suggestions for how writers can better understand how AI can help them. I believe the best way to help writers understand AI’s potential, is to show them how they can use it themselves.
You’ll find a preview for the article below, and you can read the full article in the link provided also below.
I’m also pleased to announce I’m launching my new subscriber chat. I’ve always wanted to build a community around how AI is impacting society and this publication, so this is the next step with that mission.
Each week starting now, you’ll be able to chat with myself and others about the topics raised that week. There will be a separate chat thread for each weeks newsletter. I look forward to chatting with you, come join us!
Finally, just a further update on my podcast interview series.
I’ve been thrilled by the responses from my subscribers who’d like to be interviewed in a podcast episode about how they see AI impacting them and society.
I’m currently working with 14 people from a range of different countries & backgrounds including: an anthropologist, writer, 2 lawyers, graphic artist, the owner of an AI Consultancy, a copyrighter, a film editor, a couple of social scientists, a data scientist, and more.
I’m recording my first episode next week, which means next weeks newsletter should include the first podcast interview for you, so watch this space.
Could this be potential interest to you too?
No, I’m not looking for AI experts (thats me!) I am looking for people from different walks of life and professions, who have been thinking about AI could impact their profession or personal life in some way.
If this might be you, I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas, please feel free to direct message me using the button below.
Have a good week,
Take care,
Pranath
Overcoming the Fear: How Micro-Tasks Can Help Demystify AI for Writers
A Gateway to AI Expertise for the Hesitant Writer
Are you a writer feeling concerned or even terrified about the rise of AI and tools like ChatGPT? You're not alone. Many writers don't understand how AI works and are uncertain about what's coming next. But dismissing AI as something that can never replicate human creativity or writing skills may be just as misguided.
The key is to gain firsthand practical experience yourself with AI writing tools to better understand their potential and limitations. This article provides a practical guide with specific prompts for using free AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft CoPilot, and Claude to assist with various creative writing tasks. From brainstorming and outlining to character development, world-building, and even generating prose.
By experimenting with these AI prompts for micro-tasks like creating story pitches, writing synopses, developing settings and characters, you'll gain valuable insights into how AI can be a collaborative partner to help your own writing process rather than just a text generator.
Whether you're an optimist, a skeptic, or somewhere in between regarding AI's creative potential, engaging with these AI assisted writing tasks will demystify the technology and equip you with a clearer perspective on how AI can assist you with your own unique creative process as a writer.
Overcoming the Fear: How Micro-Tasks Can Help Demystify AI for Writers
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I’ve written extensively about how AI is impacting society and humanity, now and in the future. I’ve also worked with AI as an AI Researcher, Data Scientist and an AI Consultant.
Regular readers will know that my passion and writing is focussed here on helping you understand in plain english, no geek - how AI is impacting different parts of society, different professions, from a human perspective, that is also technically informed.
I want to help you better understand the changes that AI has brought us already, what is yet to come, and how this could impact you.
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How AI is impacting employment and the world of work
Where & why AI is disrupting different creative industries
What insights AI gives us into the nature of creativity and consciousness
Why AI is disrupting our legal systems and our sense of agency & ownership
How AI is impacting relationships: human & AI, and why
AI Regulation - Why we need it, what works, what doesn’t work
How different cultures are responding to AI
The potential for AI to revolutionise education
The effect of AI on mental health, does it make it worse, or could it help us?
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What’s your perspective on the issues raised this week?
I’d love to know what you think whatever that is, join us in the community chat to discuss this week’s issues with myself & others.