In another thread, I wrote:
Later, I was fascinated, purely as an amateur because I was now a lawyer, to follow the research into machines that can mimic human intelligence. I remember idly making notes (now in the eighties) about combining quantum mechanics with layered nodes to mimic neurons (an idea I had read about), but with the capacity to consider all neural pathways simultaneously (an idea that I had). This thought so frightened me that I have had a hard time enjoying the idea of AI ever since. Imagine a thinking machine that can consider all possibilities at once, while we humans are limited to linear neural pathways. If we think AI is too disruptive now, well, we haven’t seen anything yet. When the bastards finally figure out how to combine quantum computing with classical AI (it’s funny calling AI classical, but that’s what it is), we are really screwed as living, thinking beings. And I’m an optimist by nature.
My point is that we are only at the beginning of what AI can do in the realm of writing, limited, as it is, to large language models. Once we develop thinking machines based on qubit superposition, not only will the writing produced be indistinguishable from our best novelists, but it will surpass them because machine do not sleep, do not get tired, and never quit of their own accord.
So, each morning at 4 a.m. I pad down to my studio, bring up Scrivener and Aeon Timeline, and tap out my novel. It’s my way of shaking my fist at the bastards, one letter at a time.