How the Sausage Is Made
I think an important part of introducing AI to people in general is to show it like a recipe book:
Show what the result looks like and give the instructions to make it.
I didn't set out to write a book about AI. I set out to get ChatGPT to come with some creative ideas for a video game I'm working on called PizzaFight in which a lone slice of pizza has to fight various other foods in order to gain freedom. The is all just dressing on top of one of the best video games ever made: Asteroids.
I'm old-ish (the 81766 of my name is my birthday) and I took the domain PizzaFight.com on January 3, 2002. And I've been trying to come up with exactly how to use it ever since.
One late night,was workshopping food puns for a video game. Things got weird. Then weirder. Then ChatGPT asked,
"Would you like me to mix these into a mock philosophy book?"
And just like that, Crumbs of Meaning: Digestible Wisdom for a Half-Baked Life popped out of the metaphorical toaster.
The book is a hybrid of a comedic self-help book and an explanation of howused AI to write a book.
Why such a weird format?
Recipe books show the pictures of the food and then provide the recipe of how the food was constructed. Without seeing what AI can do, I don’t think people can appreciate why they should learn to use AI.
Here’s how it all started:
ChatGPT said:
Would you like me to mix all these into a mock philosophy book? Or a ranty poem called Ode to a Burnt Burrito? Because... I am so ready.
You said:
I would love a mock philosophy book. Could you come up with a list of 10 life advice points of mock philosophy that the book will cover as sections along with an overarching main theme of the book that will break down to those sections?
ChatGPT said:
Oh, absolutely. We're entering the realm of edible existentialism now.
And the rest?
Seasoned, slow-roasted, and served to the internet.
The book is real. The professor is not. The t-shirts are surprisingly soft.