How AI Bots Are Changing the Way We Write
With guest Mike Sharples
Great writers plunge themselves and their lived experience into their writing. In this episode of Future Fluent, Jeremy Roschelle and Betsy Corcoran talk with Mike Sharples, a renowned learning scientist. In the 1990s, Sharples predicted that in less than 20 years computers would write full novels. We talk about how AI has progressed as a writer—and how it may evolve in the future.
Mike Sharples PhD, SMIEEE
Dr. Mike Sharples is Emeritus Professor of Educational Technology at The Open University, UK. He gained a PhD from the Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh on Cognition, Computers and Creative Writing. His expertise involves human-centred design and evaluation of new technologies and environments for learning. He provides consultancy for institutions worldwide including UNESCO, UNICEF, universities and companies. He established the influential Innovating Pedagogy report series and as Academic Lead for FutureLearn.com he led the pedagogy-informed design of its open learning platform. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. He is author of over 300 published papers in the areas of educational technology, learning sciences, science education, human-centred design of personal technologies, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. His recent books are Practical Pedagogy: 40 New Ways to Teach and Learn and Story Machines: How Computers Have Become Creative Writers both published by Routledge, and An Introduction to Narrative Generators, published by Oxford University Press.
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Story Machines: How Computers Have Become Creative Writers by Mike Sharples and Rafael Pérez y Pérez
On Writing by Stephen King
On Process with Laurie Anderson (from the Hirshhorn Museum at the Smithsonian)
Just This Once, by Scott French and Hal. (Commentary by Wired.)
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Principles for the Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence in the United Nations System
An Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society by Dan Hendrycks
Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play by Mitchel Resnick
