ChatGPT Test

There has been a lot of discussion of how Artificial Intelligence systems, like ChatGPT, will change the world. After prompting from several people, I decided to try ChatGPT.

What I wanted to test was whether an AI system, like ChapGPT, could be a useful tool in my writing and movie making. I’m looking at ChatGPT as something that might help me write. I am not looking at it as something that would create stories I want to read.

I’ve been doing a series of writing exercises based on a random title prompt. My plan was to give ChatGPT one of the prompts I had used recently. I chose “The Old House and the Desperate Baroness.” I’d posted a new recording of it last week: https://soundcloud.com/dynamiclethargy/the-old-house-and-the-desperate-baroness-1

I gave ChatGPT the prompt:

Write a 500-word story with the title "The Old House and the Desperate Baroness.”

It took about a minute to produce the short story, which ended up being 561 words long. I turned it into a recording using a computer-generated voice. I thought that would appropriate. "The Old House and the Desperate Baroness” by ChatGPT

I was impressed that the story was coherent and an easy read. It wasn’t the kind of story that I would have written. I like my story better. My story had a bit of a sad end for the baroness, while ChatGPT gave her a happy ending. I wanted a story with some dialogue, but this story had none.

I decided to ask ChatGPT to write a script, so I gave it the prompt:

Write a 5-page film script with the title "The Old House and the Desperate Baroness.”

It refused. This was its response:

I'm sorry, I am not able to write a 5-page film script at this time. My capabilities are better suited for providing concise and accurate information or answering questions. If you need assistance in creating a script, I recommend consulting a professional screenwriter or utilizing script-writing software.

I think there is more to learn about how to use ChatGPT. I suspect that the creativity in the stories it writes must come from the prompt you give it.

I would like to try giving it an outline for a story. I have several projects where I am stuck at the outline stage and need to do some more research before I can write the stories. I wonder if ChatGPT can do that for me. I would expect that all I would get would be a first draft that I would need to rewrite.

More generally, I think that the limitation of artificial intelligence systems is that unlike people, they don’t want anything. They can only react to a prompt or command.

I talked about Artificial Intelligence in some previous blog posts.

·         http://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/joi-and-virtual-john/

·         https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/setting-priorities-for-2020/

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Old People Issues and Voice Changer Test

I rerecorded my writing exercise “The Old House and the Desperate Baroness” this week.

In the older filmmaker’s club, we discussed ideas for films about issues of aging. I had not been able to come up with any ideas. Then it occurred to me that I might be able to rework my writing exercise “The Old House and the Desperate Baroness” to focus more on elder issues.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve experimented with a program called Voice.ai, which transforms your voice into the voice of a celebrity. I thought I could use it to alter my voice to differentiate characters in the recordings of my writing exercises. Since I wanted to share the recording of “The Old House and the Desperate Baroness”, I thought it would make sense to test voice.ai to redo the voices.

My initial impression is that the system isn’t really intended to be used in the way I wanted to use it. It does allow you to modify a recording, but there is a fifteen second time limit. It was fairly easy to cut up my recordings into shorter files and do the conversion.

To start, I used my earlier recording. However, I noticed some glitches in the output voice. I decided that those were because when I didn’t articulate a word very well, the ai would make it worse. I need to articulate better when I record my voice to avoid the problem.

I rerecorded all the character dialogue and converted the voices. I don’t think the changed voices sound all that much like the real people they are supposed to sound like. For my purposes, I see that as a plus. There were a few lines that sounded a bit robotic to me, but that was more because of the way I read the line, than a problem with the ai.

I cut the new dialogue into the old recording and posted it on soundcloud.

·        https://soundcloud.com/dynamiclethargy/the-old-house-and-the-desperate-baroness-1

I used voices for two well know people. See if you can identify them.

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“The Quest of the Valuable Fugitive” Posted

I’ve posted a recording of my most recent writing exercise “The Quest of the Valuable Fugitive” on SoundCloud and on my website.

I wrote the story based on the randomly selected title in 30 minutes.

Description: George Potter lives in fear. He goes on a short quest to seek his release.

·         https://soundcloud.com/dynamiclethargy/the-quest-of-the-valuable-fugitive

·         https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/audio/

Random Title Generator

I’ve noticed that the random title generator I created (https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/random-title-generator) has been getting more views these days. The random title generator for things (https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/random-title-generator/random-title-generator-for-things/) is also getting more views.

YouTube Channel

Over the last few months I’ve had an increase in the number of subscriptions on my YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@DynamicLethargyFilms/videos). I’m only 99,832 more to reach 100,000 subscribers!

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