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Language
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Book Summary
AI is changing the world at frightening speed. A bestselling author decides to find out moreโฆ โSomething profound and utterly brilliant is going onโฆ hilarious.โ THE TIMES Is ChatGPT the end of creative industries as we know them? An ethical quagmire from which there is no return? A threat to all our jobs, as we keep hearing on the news? Bestselling childrenโs author Andy Stanton has made a career out of writing differently โ from the unconventional โheroโ of his bestselling Mr Gum series to his penchant for absurdist plots, his childrenโs books are anything but formulaic. When a friend introduces him to ChatGPT, the new large language chatbot, Andy is as sceptical as he is curious. Can this jumble of algorithms really mimic the spontaneity of human thought? Could it one day replace human authors like him for good? And are we soon to be ruled over by despotic robot overlords? He decides thereโs only one thing for it โ he must test this botโs capabilities. Eventually, he settles on a prompt that will push the algorithm to its creative limits: โtell me a story about a blue whale with a tiny penis.โ Chaos ensues. What follows is a surprising and illuminating battle between Andy and ChatGPT that maybe, just maybe, might help us all understand AI a little bit better. Join Andy and his beleaguered AI lackey on a rollicking metafictional journey through the art of storytelling. Presenting his prompts and the AI-generated narrative alongside extensive commentary, Stanton provides a startling paean to the art of a good story and boundless human creativity. Hopeful and hilarious, Benny the Blue Whale provides a joyfully anarchic meditation on AI, literature and why we write. *** A WATERSTONES AND NEW SCIENTIST BEST BOOK OF 2023 โThereโs no book like it. Scholarly, childish, fascinating and hilarious โ one of our funniest writers dissects what it takes to build a story and what that tells us about being human. Itโll really make you think, if you can stop laughing .โ โChris Addison, co-creator of BREEDERS โ Entertaining and alarmingly relevant , provocative and philosophically satisfying, itโs ultimately a profoundly human text .โ OBSERVER โ A magnificent experiment by a perfect fool โ deep and shallow and stupid and clever โ the perfect use of AI (Andy Intelligence).โ โRobin Ince, author of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING INTERESTED โ Benny the Blue Whale is many things. Itโs a fascinating discourse on the nature of language and storytelling. Itโs a philosophical treatise on the possibilities of artificial intelligence. Itโs a receptacle for obscenely hilarious jokes... A brilliant and beautiful cyborg : part human brain, part computational muscle. Itโs a post-post-modern work of genius .โ โAnthony McGowan, Carnegie Medal-winning author of LARK
Product Details
Author
Andy Stanton
Publisher
Harper Collins
Number of Pages
384
Language
English
SKU
9780861547401
ISBN
9780861547401
Reading Age
All
Binding
Hardback
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