As befits one of my generation (age 76), I am highly suspicious and generally antagonistic to the notion of what AI can already do and the damage it may inflict upon writers. However, I see a marvelous potential (still, alas, probably decades off in the future).
We know that Shakespeare wrote a number of "histories," but that Henry II was not among them. Given such a marvelous work as THE LION IN WINTER, might it be possible to feed the AI every word Shakespeare wrote, then add the history of Henry II (as known during the appropriate time span -- e.g., 1592-1607), and hope to have it produce a "Shakespearean" play about that monarch?
More ambitious still: Giuseppi Verdi, the Italian operatic giant, wrote three plays based on Shakespeare's works (OTELLO, MACBETH, and FALSTAFF). He wanted and indeed worked on an operatic setting of KING LEAR, but the project aborted. Again: might a technological device absorb all the compositions of Verdi, then focus on his treatment of Shakespeare's texts in the three operas above, and ultimately produce the "Verdian" opera the composer never wrote? Just curious.
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Finally: as for draft2digital: Their printing costs are indeed higher and the royalties are thus compromised. However, their royalties for digital books are arguably comparable, since they seem to offer a better return on lower-priced (i.e., sub-$2.99) books. Good luck with them, though. [I don't wish to sell books from my website, but if you find someone who might be interested in 600 copies of a small paperback (on an obscure tragedy of the American Revolutionary War), please let me know!]
I am curious about your thoughts about the veracity of ChatGPT. What does OpenAI say about how much we can rely on the research we ask its software to do?
As befits one of my generation (age 76), I am highly suspicious and generally antagonistic to the notion of what AI can already do and the damage it may inflict upon writers. However, I see a marvelous potential (still, alas, probably decades off in the future).
We know that Shakespeare wrote a number of "histories," but that Henry II was not among them. Given such a marvelous work as THE LION IN WINTER, might it be possible to feed the AI every word Shakespeare wrote, then add the history of Henry II (as known during the appropriate time span -- e.g., 1592-1607), and hope to have it produce a "Shakespearean" play about that monarch?
More ambitious still: Giuseppi Verdi, the Italian operatic giant, wrote three plays based on Shakespeare's works (OTELLO, MACBETH, and FALSTAFF). He wanted and indeed worked on an operatic setting of KING LEAR, but the project aborted. Again: might a technological device absorb all the compositions of Verdi, then focus on his treatment of Shakespeare's texts in the three operas above, and ultimately produce the "Verdian" opera the composer never wrote? Just curious.
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Finally: as for draft2digital: Their printing costs are indeed higher and the royalties are thus compromised. However, their royalties for digital books are arguably comparable, since they seem to offer a better return on lower-priced (i.e., sub-$2.99) books. Good luck with them, though. [I don't wish to sell books from my website, but if you find someone who might be interested in 600 copies of a small paperback (on an obscure tragedy of the American Revolutionary War), please let me know!]
I am curious about your thoughts about the veracity of ChatGPT. What does OpenAI say about how much we can rely on the research we ask its software to do?