'The Wizard of Oz' is coming to The Sphere in Las Vegas with reimagined AI-generated scenes—Mashable
Pay no attention to that computer behind the curtain.
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https://mashable.com/article/the-wizard-of-oz-the-sphere-generative-ai
And the company behind it is called Colossal Biosciences. Do you want to call Jeff Goldblum, or should I?
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Will AI Become God? That’s the Wrong Question—Vox.
Indeed.
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https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/407154/jaron-lanier-ai-religion-progress-criticism
#WritersCoffeeClub Apr 6: Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?
I lean towards editing during the process. I go over each section several times, but I also know I'm headed for major revisions in the second draft.
Gaia, the space observatory, won’t shut down easily now that its mission is over. Shades of Star Trek—TOS episode “The Changling,” “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.” You knew this would be a problem! 
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Looking deeper into God’s universe. Makes me think of my upcoming short story “Let There Be Light,” with a Christian scientist and his secular protege fighting (literally) for control of a mile-wide space telescope in 2044.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Apr 2. International Children’s Book Day! What makes for a good book for children?
It's a good story, and it's told at children's level. This doesn't mean dumbing it down. It means keeping to their point of view and to the things that are important to them. I mean, kids read superhero comics, which were about adults, for DECADES.
A.I. Has Learned How to Cheat—and Punishing It Will Only Make It Smarter—Popular Mechanics
More human than ever.
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SNTIENT is an unfolding digital tale of corporate overlords and robots reaching singularity. Brands can be in the story as product placement. It is not interactive or transactive, but brands can transfer appearances into their own marketing communications. Sponsoring dystopia conveys coolness in Blade Runner and Minority Report.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 26: About which format or style choices are you the most uncertain?
Chapter length. I really have no idea what I'm doing with chapters. I'm considering not bothering with them and just stringing hundreds of scenes together.
#WritersCoffeeClub March 25: Describe your workflow if it had to be 100% analog.
Write on paper. Write scenes as separate little units. Put scenes in file folders. Rearrange scenes in folders and fill in missing ones as necessary.
#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 24: Is there a particular reader you keep in mind when you write?
I'm trying to resist that urge because there are two: the SFF/genre reader who's three steps ahead of me bc they know all the tropes, and the BIGOT sff/genre reader who's deliberately misreading everything I do in order to avoid all the "woke."
Great writing advice I just heard: Articulate the concept of your story in human terms.
The book I'm working on: Girl gets abducted into a cult, makes good friends who are all resisting it, and they all work their way home.
Doesn't matter it's in space, in the future, and they have super powers. That's not the character or emotional core.
#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 23: What’s the most memorable encounter you’ve had with a reader?
When one person in my new writing group announced she'd been reading my stuff all week. It was really encouraging.
#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 22: What distracts you the most from writing? How do you deal?
Literally, for real, the pain in my hip from my arthritis, which is the *oldest* thing that's ever happened to me.
DISC test administered to AI platforms, revealing different personalities between ChatGPT, DeepSeek, etc. Going further, what happens when AI suffers from mental illness? Find out in the novella “Through a Glass, Darkly,” part of my Christian sci-fi anthology HONOR System, available on Amazon.
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https://www.eweek.com/news/news-ai-chatbots-personality-chatgpt-perplexity-gemini-deepseek/
Viewing AI as Alien Intelligence—Avi Loeb
Loeb—astrophysicist and controversial seeker of ETs—suggests luring alien AI probes toward Earth by providing energy sources they can tap. We’re just begging for it! 
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https://avi-loeb.medium.com/viewing-ai-as-alien-intelligence-f1d08286267f
#ScribesAndMakers Mar 20: Do you like graffiti? Do you have an example? Yes.
Many many years ago, a girl I went to high school with and who'd just moved from another country saw a wall of graffiti and said, "Look at the calligraphy!"
I think of that EVERY TIME I see graffiti.
#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 20: What was the most writing related fun you've had?
My writer's group, once every two weeks. I love those people. I really *need* those meetings!
#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 19: What’s your narrator’s sense of humor like?
In my current project, the narration has little to no humour at all. It's a dry, quiet style of writing... until the fight scenes.
