I admit I have mixed feelings about AI. It has lots of potential. In fact, it’s already found applications in medical diagnosis, pharmaceutical design, and even coding. At the same time, attaching it to spelling and grammar checkers has been a disaster, turning these once-useful tools to garbage. Tales abound of AI-written documents containing fabricated source material. Research shows that the way you phrase a question can introduce confirmation bias in the answers that AI engines give.
Like I said, mixed feelings.
We’re just at the infancy of this technology, and it’s changing every day. Even seemingly innocuous applications could turn out to have unexpected consequences. That’s the kind of thinking that can lead an author of speculative fiction to odd places.
Thus, this story about a frustrated graduate student trying to finish his doctoral disseration on Samuel Pepys.
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