Thanks, ABE. 🙏 I've got another short out this week that leans a little more toward the 'scary' end of the AI spectrum, but I think this might be more realistic. Hopefully prophetic, as you say.
Thanks, Ty. I haven't written a Hartsock story in a while, because I kept thinking I would write the whole book. May be time to revisit 🤔 Glad you liked it!
I did i once was in acadamia and i thought it was an sly depiction. I appreciared julians nonchalance as opposed to the status quoe and how it was presented. Not to mention that for a story w a key component to be sequestered info so to speak, it was engaging nonetheless. No. Perhaps because of it. Thanks!!!!
Since you find Issac Arthur a good muse, you should take a look at Anton Petrov, who provides a very accessible look at the very latest hard science with a pretty strong focus on Cosmology.
Thanks, Martin! Yes, I've watched many of his videos as well. So many informative topics! Always much respect for those who can make very complex concepts accessible.
Thanks, Keith! Thankfully, I never had that experience. My mentors were amazing people and teachers, but that makes for a far less entertaining story 😂
Thank you, Jim. Glad you're finding it so. My main reason for writing has always been to ask questions that I think are interesting and important, and it's great to hear that's coming across to you as well.
Thanks, David! That's a pretty good way to describe Julian. There are two other Hartsock stories in the catalog (so far) if you haven't caught them yet: "To Geddes" & "The Edge of the Abyss" if you're interested. If you liked this one, it's a good bet you'll enjoy those too. Thanks for listening!
This one talking about scarcity and birth rates (how when one goes up the other goes down) got me thinking. Have you addressed the mouse utopia experiment, in any of your writings? I think there is some interesting possibility there with your masterful handling of religion and AI so far. Wonderful reference to the cathedrals by the way, those ancient craftsmen were next level. "Dark ages" *scornful noises*
I'm not sure if it's a direct 1 to 1, but the "Failsafe" stories are certainly thematically similar, if you haven't checked them out already. I did go back and check out some of Brunelleschi's earlier works the week I was working on "Singular." Pretty humbling stuff for anyone who ever thinks they're something special! Hard to argue with the kind of ancient wisdom that's hewn in stone.
I completely agree with Beware the Grey Ghost!I had started clear of sci fi involving AI because it seemed to be missing so many of the connections with other disciplines. So glad I discovered Mr. Rowe. It is also well worth listening or reading the stories a few times at least because there are always new aspects to discover. Great stuff!
You are a Man of rare intellect and great talent. A Brunelleschi indeed! After two stories i subscribed. i like to start at the beginning of anything new so Your first upload was next. Excellent story as were the as the first two. This is the fourth story i've listened to and it is brilliant! i can't tell You how much i enjoyed it!
I know this was written a while back, but I agree with 23:33, with the current advancements in artificial intelligence. I've been looking far too far into the future recently, and I can't help but feel a kind of dread at what will happen, or what won't. (I'll say I don't really know what will/won't happen, but the dread doesn't care. The not knowing certainly doesn't help). Honestly this is up there with my favorite works of yours. Thank you for doing this, it makes my Thursdays great :)
Cheers, Lucca! It's a great adventure to share these stories with everyone 🙏 I think a big part of the joy is exploring such big questions. Glad you're enjoying the process 😃
Hey, I'm new here!! I'm a long time sci-fi lover, and what you have been doing here is not only ingenius, but absolutely appreciated!! Keep up the good work man, you've got a hardcore fan now lol. (I only listen to you ❤)
@@Silver7866 Thanks, Silver! That's so cool to hear! Part of what makes me so excited for the channel is that we're all new here, and I feel like we're just getting started! So happy to have you along!
Enjoyed this and looking forward to the other two you. Thank You, PS get the guy a girl, you know the birth rates are low. Hate to waste those good genes!
Here is an AI artwork that won a competition , at the Colorado State Fair. ruclips.net/video/L07odWawECg/видео.html So does AI really have to feel anything to be Creative? I'm not sure. but I'm on team feeling. "Happiness ( ie emotion) is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." - Aristotle.
That's a big question, MrIzzy. If creativity is the act, then it's hard to say yes. If it is the product, then it's a clear yes. I agree with team feeling for sure, but I've studied fiction closely enough to know that AI will be writing equal or superior fiction much sooner than people think. Oddly enough, the thumbnail for this story took me hours to cobble together with no AI elements, and I still kinda like it. These days, the AI components or even full images that I'm using for thumbs (Midjourney as well) make it possible for me to keep up with a weekly story, especially the Misfits episodes, which are all close to 10,000 words.
@@RoweLit this is a nice thumb nail. as are most of yours. I assumed you had an artist friend . Its a new world of Ai though. AI is getting better and better at so many things. Visual Art being one. and Chat GPT is certainly an opening salvo aimed at writing. It is not truly great yet. . though I've heard its good enough to write good country music lyrics. and we may be listening to some already without knowing. IDK where it all leads nightmarishly it could collapse the' labor for income dynamic' of the entire economy, even the creative economy. . Certainly it will have huge effects. I hope that the "consider all factors and optimize them all " type economy many people are advocating for. Will grow. In Which case the loss of jobs will actually l be welcomed. Possibly some cyborg like merger can preserve emotions . free will, and add massive computing power and physical ability to people. which are some ideas there you already incorporate in many stories. Keep up the good work. maybe prompt Chat GPT yourself to write a short story in you P E Rowe style. maybe it can even be a tool for you right now.
@@MrIzzyDizzy Thanks! Finding the right balcony to put in actually took me the longest 🤣 I don't know if prompting GPT to imitate me would be all that fun on my end. I imagine with the volume of input to imitate, it might be a bit too close for comfort. I used to coach skiing in the days before good camera phones, so most skiers had no idea what they looked like until we videoed them, and there was almost always a blank "that's what I look like!" look on their faces through the first session or two. I think the last domino to fall in the creative sense might be humor/stand-up comedy. That might be a direction to take my Earth after Humanity topic in a couple weeks: All the bots are imitating the last comics left on Earth--although I vaguely recall the South Park guys had a German Funnybot a few years back. We'll see 😂
@@RoweLit Yes I recall one of the comedians I often follow testing it( lee camp). The jokes were pretty bad. and there was a lot of " Buddy! " or" Pal!" type comments which was neither funny or anything like lee camp Also the narration is not good at all some have tried it on RUclips with books i know are good stories. It lacks emotional intelligence and it and doesn't change it's voice at all for each character. It is really terrible. like this - ruclips.net/video/9xfLwEdYU8Q/видео.html - its a good story and i like the series but this reading of it was crap.
@@MrIzzyDizzy That is not great. Yeah, I'm not sure I'd choose to listen to a full novel of that unless I had to. It's on par with my kindle's built-in read aloud function, which I use to edit my own work. That reading is a year old, though, and that's a long time in the AI space. Did you check out this one yet: ruclips.net/video/-zXTIUgcdx0/видео.html ? It's the only one I've used Eleven Labs for, and it's not perfect, but pretty good (I think). Like the "buddy" and "pal" phatics in jokes, the intonation is subtly off in places, but it's shockingly on more often than not. It may never be as good as a good voice actor, but I'm not sure I'll be better than Eleven for too much longer.
@P.E. Rowe, who are you? The exemplary diversity of your stories makes me feel that you are a pan dimensional being that had lived many lives. Because writing and narrating stories that have a head and a tail and that can keep you on the edge is definitely not a small feat. And without using special effects or CGI at all. Tell us who are you? Ok, there are some hints of your writing style provenance when in your prologue where you mention the artillery guy ( I’m so ashamed that I don’t remember his name or the name of his channel) and the collaboration with his graphic and audio team. But still, it’s not just stories there’s valid philosophical points about the works. The tone and the cadence of your speech reminds me reading Isaac Asimov and U.K.L. at the same time. Thanks.
Hi, Mario. Thanks for such generous comparisons there 🙏 I get that every now and again and it's heady stuff for a sci-fi writer (at least this sci-fi writer) to get told he reminds them of any aspect of the greatest to ever do it. As far as me, I tend to think the least interesting part of this project is the author. Most of the time I'm sitting in a chair pecking away at the keyboard, and when I'm not doing that, I'm tending my garden. My Mechanics channel (linked on the channel's homepage) has my narrative lectures on it, and I'm on camera for those. The introduction gives a solid background on how I got so deep into narrative theory. That's really the trick if there is one. I understand story structure and put it into practice every week. I'm not sure about your reference to collaboration, as I do all the artwork and audio myself. Thanks for your thoughtful comment, Mario! I hope that answers some of your questions😃
Ah! Okay, I'm a little slow on the uptake sometimes 😃 Isaac and I don't collaborate. I write stories based off his topics, but that's the extent of it. He's extraordinarily busy, and I suspect so much so that he doesn't have much extra bandwidth to add to his already insane productivity.
Considering all the commotion about AI at the moment, this story is timely and prophetic.
Thanks, ABE. 🙏 I've got another short out this week that leans a little more toward the 'scary' end of the AI spectrum, but I think this might be more realistic. Hopefully prophetic, as you say.
Amazing. And the reading was perfect at building the tension.
Thanks, MadderHat. 🙏
Singular - A description of the protagonist and the author! 👌👨🎓📜
Thank you I enjoy your work
Thanks, Karen! Glad to hear it 😃
These are relentlessly fantastic.
Thanks, greyghost! I just try to keep relentlessly writing with the hope they come out fantastic 😄 Glad to hear you're enjoying many of them!
Holy canolli i loved this one. The presentation. The concepts the characters ty
Thanks, Ty. I haven't written a Hartsock story in a while, because I kept thinking I would write the whole book. May be time to revisit 🤔 Glad you liked it!
I did i once was in acadamia and i thought it was an sly depiction. I appreciared julians nonchalance as opposed to the status quoe and how it was presented. Not to mention that for a story w a key component to be sequestered info so to speak, it was engaging nonetheless. No. Perhaps because of it. Thanks!!!!
@@kevindean6600 Can you tell I spent a little time in academia too🤣
@@RoweLit lol. Absolutely
Since you find Issac Arthur a good muse, you should take a look at Anton Petrov, who provides a very accessible look at the very latest hard science with a pretty strong focus on Cosmology.
Thanks, Martin! Yes, I've watched many of his videos as well. So many informative topics! Always much respect for those who can make very complex concepts accessible.
Defending a thesis is a big dump on anyone’s pride/patience. Especially when dealing with a pompous professor! Well done!
Thanks, Keith! Thankfully, I never had that experience. My mentors were amazing people and teachers, but that makes for a far less entertaining story 😂
What a wonferful "essay" on the topic - clear, deep and enjoyable to listen to !
Techsavy philosophical scifi - more please !
🙏🏼👍🏼🖖🏻
Thanks, tg! More is definitely coming 😃
Excellent..perceptive and thought evoking...not only this story but the entire body of work..Thanks
Thank you, Jim. Glad you're finding it so. My main reason for writing has always been to ask questions that I think are interesting and important, and it's great to hear that's coming across to you as well.
Great stuff. Your main character to me felt grandiose but real, grounded.
Thanks, David! That's a pretty good way to describe Julian. There are two other Hartsock stories in the catalog (so far) if you haven't caught them yet: "To Geddes" & "The Edge of the Abyss" if you're interested. If you liked this one, it's a good bet you'll enjoy those too. Thanks for listening!
I really liked this one. A near future story makes my heart sing.
Great food for thought!
Thanks, Gerald!
This one talking about scarcity and birth rates (how when one goes up the other goes down) got me thinking. Have you addressed the mouse utopia experiment, in any of your writings? I think there is some interesting possibility there with your masterful handling of religion and AI so far. Wonderful reference to the cathedrals by the way, those ancient craftsmen were next level. "Dark ages" *scornful noises*
I'm not sure if it's a direct 1 to 1, but the "Failsafe" stories are certainly thematically similar, if you haven't checked them out already. I did go back and check out some of Brunelleschi's earlier works the week I was working on "Singular." Pretty humbling stuff for anyone who ever thinks they're something special! Hard to argue with the kind of ancient wisdom that's hewn in stone.
I completely agree with Beware the Grey Ghost!I had started clear of sci fi involving AI because it seemed to be missing so many of the connections with other disciplines. So glad I discovered Mr. Rowe. It is also well worth listening or reading the stories a few times at least because there are always new aspects to discover. Great stuff!
That was the most concise characterisation of soccer I have heard so far.
Cheers, Blackbird 🙏 Got to love and respect the beautiful game!
You are a Man of rare intellect and great talent. A Brunelleschi indeed! After two stories i subscribed. i like to start at the beginning of anything new so Your first upload was next. Excellent story as were the as the first two. This is the fourth story i've listened to and it is brilliant! i can't tell You how much i enjoyed it!
Thanks, Barry! Glad to hear you're enjoying 🙏😃 The catalogue has grown a lot since this one with much more to come 🚀
I know this was written a while back, but I agree with 23:33, with the current advancements in artificial intelligence. I've been looking far too far into the future recently, and I can't help but feel a kind of dread at what will happen, or what won't. (I'll say I don't really know what will/won't happen, but the dread doesn't care. The not knowing certainly doesn't help).
Honestly this is up there with my favorite works of yours. Thank you for doing this, it makes my Thursdays great :)
Cheers, Lucca! It's a great adventure to share these stories with everyone 🙏 I think a big part of the joy is exploring such big questions. Glad you're enjoying the process 😃
Just brilliant. Thank you. 🥲
Thank you, Zeke! Glad you're enjoying 🙏😃
I absolutely loved this!!! Thank you!
Cheers, Lisa! Glad to hear it!
Thanks!
Thank you for the support, Patrick!
As always well done.
Cheers, Dave! 🙏😃
Beautiful!
Cheers, LaVera! 😃🙏
Not 1 comment?!.! Well this is my two cents.... another great story, read with passion. Thanks bud.
Thanks, Steve! Really appreciate your support. 😃
You have a knack for finding my favorites.
Hey, I'm new here!! I'm a long time sci-fi lover, and what you have been doing here is not only ingenius, but absolutely appreciated!! Keep up the good work man, you've got a hardcore fan now lol. (I only listen to you ❤)
@@Silver7866 Thanks, Silver! That's so cool to hear! Part of what makes me so excited for the channel is that we're all new here, and I feel like we're just getting started! So happy to have you along!
Omg thank you wonderful story
Thanks, Kath con. Glad you enjoyed it.
PERFECT..!!!
Thanks, Barron! Glad you enjoyed this one. 🙏Hopefully much more to come from Julian.
brilliant
You find all the good ones!
Brilliant
Cheers, Justin!
Excellent
Thanks, Rob 😃🙏
I like your style
I literally clapped “Flat point on the egg.”
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Consciousness creates the box machines can not escape.
They will try 🤔
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Mark CEN CA have not heard this one either 😮😊
👍
😃🙏
Being wayyy less articulate then you are, I can only say Excellent!
Cheers, Herb!
Enjoyed this and looking forward to the other two you. Thank You, PS get the guy a girl, you know the birth rates are low. Hate to waste those good genes!
Thanks, Charles! More to come on this front for sure, so we'll see.
Become the spoon……
There is no spoon 😃
Here is an AI artwork that won a competition , at the Colorado State Fair. ruclips.net/video/L07odWawECg/видео.html So does AI really have to feel anything to be Creative? I'm not sure. but I'm on team feeling.
"Happiness ( ie emotion) is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." - Aristotle.
That's a big question, MrIzzy. If creativity is the act, then it's hard to say yes. If it is the product, then it's a clear yes. I agree with team feeling for sure, but I've studied fiction closely enough to know that AI will be writing equal or superior fiction much sooner than people think. Oddly enough, the thumbnail for this story took me hours to cobble together with no AI elements, and I still kinda like it. These days, the AI components or even full images that I'm using for thumbs (Midjourney as well) make it possible for me to keep up with a weekly story, especially the Misfits episodes, which are all close to 10,000 words.
@@RoweLit this is a nice thumb nail. as are most of yours. I assumed you had an artist friend . Its a new world of Ai though. AI is getting better and better at so many things. Visual Art being one. and Chat GPT is certainly an opening salvo aimed at writing. It is not truly great yet. . though I've heard its good enough to write good country music lyrics. and we may be listening to some already without knowing.
IDK where it all leads nightmarishly it could collapse the' labor for income dynamic' of the entire economy, even the creative economy. . Certainly it will have huge effects.
I hope that the "consider all factors and optimize them all " type economy many people are advocating for. Will grow. In Which case the loss of jobs will actually l be welcomed. Possibly some cyborg like merger can preserve emotions . free will, and add massive computing power and physical ability to people. which are some ideas there you already incorporate in many stories. Keep up the good work. maybe prompt Chat GPT yourself to write a short story in you P E Rowe style. maybe it can even be a tool for you right now.
@@MrIzzyDizzy Thanks! Finding the right balcony to put in actually took me the longest 🤣 I don't know if prompting GPT to imitate me would be all that fun on my end. I imagine with the volume of input to imitate, it might be a bit too close for comfort. I used to coach skiing in the days before good camera phones, so most skiers had no idea what they looked like until we videoed them, and there was almost always a blank "that's what I look like!" look on their faces through the first session or two.
I think the last domino to fall in the creative sense might be humor/stand-up comedy. That might be a direction to take my Earth after Humanity topic in a couple weeks: All the bots are imitating the last comics left on Earth--although I vaguely recall the South Park guys had a German Funnybot a few years back. We'll see 😂
@@RoweLit Yes I recall one of the comedians I often follow testing it( lee camp). The jokes were pretty bad. and there was a lot of " Buddy! " or" Pal!" type comments which was neither funny or anything like lee camp
Also the narration is not good at all some have tried it on RUclips with books i know are good stories. It lacks emotional intelligence and it and doesn't change it's voice at all for each character. It is really terrible. like this - ruclips.net/video/9xfLwEdYU8Q/видео.html - its a good story and i like the series but this reading of it was crap.
@@MrIzzyDizzy That is not great. Yeah, I'm not sure I'd choose to listen to a full novel of that unless I had to. It's on par with my kindle's built-in read aloud function, which I use to edit my own work. That reading is a year old, though, and that's a long time in the AI space. Did you check out this one yet: ruclips.net/video/-zXTIUgcdx0/видео.html ? It's the only one I've used Eleven Labs for, and it's not perfect, but pretty good (I think). Like the "buddy" and "pal" phatics in jokes, the intonation is subtly off in places, but it's shockingly on more often than not. It may never be as good as a good voice actor, but I'm not sure I'll be better than Eleven for too much longer.
@P.E. Rowe, who are you? The exemplary diversity of your stories makes me feel that you are a pan dimensional being that had lived many lives. Because writing and narrating stories that have a head and a tail and that can keep you on the edge is definitely not a small feat. And without using special effects or CGI at all. Tell us who are you? Ok, there are some hints of your writing style provenance when in your prologue where you mention the artillery guy ( I’m so ashamed that I don’t remember his name or the name of his channel) and the collaboration with his graphic and audio team. But still, it’s not just stories there’s valid philosophical points about the works. The tone and the cadence of your speech reminds me reading Isaac Asimov and U.K.L. at the same time. Thanks.
Hi, Mario. Thanks for such generous comparisons there 🙏 I get that every now and again and it's heady stuff for a sci-fi writer (at least this sci-fi writer) to get told he reminds them of any aspect of the greatest to ever do it. As far as me, I tend to think the least interesting part of this project is the author. Most of the time I'm sitting in a chair pecking away at the keyboard, and when I'm not doing that, I'm tending my garden. My Mechanics channel (linked on the channel's homepage) has my narrative lectures on it, and I'm on camera for those. The introduction gives a solid background on how I got so deep into narrative theory. That's really the trick if there is one. I understand story structure and put it into practice every week. I'm not sure about your reference to collaboration, as I do all the artwork and audio myself. Thanks for your thoughtful comment, Mario! I hope that answers some of your questions😃
@@RoweLit the artillery guy is Isaac Arthur.
Ah! Okay, I'm a little slow on the uptake sometimes 😃 Isaac and I don't collaborate. I write stories based off his topics, but that's the extent of it. He's extraordinarily busy, and I suspect so much so that he doesn't have much extra bandwidth to add to his already insane productivity.