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3 Things That AI Has Taken Away From Highly Intelligent People

3 Things That AI Has Taken Away From Highly Intelligent People

Published by Jenni Sidey

Artificial intelligence was created to make our lives easier, and in many ways, it has. It can write emails in seconds and generate highly detailed images from a single prompt. Tasks that previously required years of specialized training can now be completed with the press of a button. However, for people who are highly intelligent, it has also taken away certain language conventions that are now known as “hallmarks of AI.” Many have stopped using them completely for fear of being accused of using AI, even though it sadly brings them a sense of loss. Here are 3 things that highly intelligent people will never forgive AI for taking away from them: 1. Em dashes PeopleImages | Shutterstock Oh, the beloved em dash. Often used as a substitute for commas, parentheses, or colons, this punchy punctuation mark used to be a fan favorite for sophisticated writers. In the English language, they are most commonly used to emphasize an idea or mark a shift in patterns of speaking or thinking. A tool that more advanced writers …

3 Things That AI Has Taken Away From Highly Intelligent People

3 Things That AI Has Taken Away From Highly Intelligent People

Published by Jenni Sidey

Artificial intelligence was created to make our lives easier, and in many ways, it has. It can write emails in seconds and generate highly detailed images from a single prompt. Tasks that previously required years of specialized training can now be completed with the press of a button. However, for people who are highly intelligent, it has also taken away certain language conventions that are now known as “hallmarks of AI.” Many have stopped using them completely for fear of being accused of using AI, even though it sadly brings them a sense of loss. Here are 3 things that highly intelligent people will never forgive AI for taking away from them: 1. Em dashes PeopleImages | Shutterstock Oh, the beloved em dash. Often used as a substitute for commas, parentheses, or colons, this punchy punctuation mark used to be a fan favorite for sophisticated writers. In the English language, they are most commonly used to emphasize an idea or mark a shift in patterns of speaking or thinking. A tool that more advanced writers …

5 writing habits that make you sound like ChatGPT (even when you’re not)

5 writing habits that make you sound like ChatGPT (even when you’re not)

Published by skeptic

I try not to judge people for using AI for writing. People may have different requirements, and different scenarios may have different rules. Yet, everyone would agree that it is definitely a disappointing situation when something you wrote is flagged as AI-generated. Sure, AI writing detectors aren’t always reliable, but there’s another possibility: your writing sounds like ChatGPT. As you probably know, AI content detectors work by analyzing the structure and writing patterns. So, if you use the same writing conventions as ChatGPT, your writing is likely to be flagged as AI-generated. You may have learned to write like that from the beginning, or the increasing amount of AI-generated content on the internet may have gotten to you — let’s not judge. Here, you will find five common writing habits that make you sound like ChatGPT even when you are writing on your own. Related 4 Reasons Why AI Checkers Might Flag Your Writing Many schools use AI checkers to flag students suspected of writing with AI. However, these are ineffective and often lead to …

Apple Expanding AI Writing Tools With Grammar Checker in iOS 27

Apple Expanding AI Writing Tools With Grammar Checker in iOS 27

Published by skeptic

iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 will include a revamped AI chatbot version of Siri with new capabilities, but Apple is also planning to introduce new Apple Intelligence features across the operating system, reports Bloomberg. Apple is testing an expanded version of Writing Tools that will do more rewriting and text generation than the current version. There is a “Write With ‌Siri‌” toggle at the top of the keyboard, along with a “Help Me Write” option that comes up when ‌Siri‌ is activated while a text field is open. Apple is planning to introduce a dedicated AI grammar checker for Writing Tools that will work like Grammarly. When writing in Messages, Mail, and other apps there will be a translucent menu that slides up from the bottom of the iPhone’s screen, and it will show suggested revisions next to the original written text. Users can go through the suggestions and accept or reject them one by one, approve all of the changes at once, or ignore all of the changes. Apple has an option for pausing …

How Writing Horror Led Marcus Kliewer To an OCD Diagnosis

How Writing Horror Led Marcus Kliewer To an OCD Diagnosis

Published by Jenni Sidey

Marcus Kliewer is the bestselling author of the horror novel We Used to Live Here. His second book, The Caretaker, is out now from 12:01 Books. Below, he discusses how writing horror led to his OCD diagnosis. I rediscovered my love for writing horror in the middle of the pandemic. It was oddly comforting to find a type of misery I had control over, even if that control was simply typing words on a page. And thanks to CERB (Canada’s $2,000/month benefit to those who lost income during the pandemic), I was able to dedicate more time to writing than I ever had before. After a six-year hiatus, I returned to r/NoSleep, a subreddit dedicated to internet horror stories. In a time when the entire world felt exceptionally isolated and directionless, sharing my work with that community gave me much-needed connection and purpose.  I was several parts into a series with the unwieldy title The Man in my Basement Takes One Step Closer Every Week when I received a DM asking me if the story was …

Is AI really ‘writing’? From a priestess to philosophers, ancient authors would have said ‘no’

Is AI really ‘writing’? From a priestess to philosophers, ancient authors would have said ‘no’

Published by Sam Flores

(The Conversation) — I teach writing and rhetoric, but my college students and I often overlook a surprisingly complicated question: What is writing? And can artificial intelligence really do it? Many people think of “writing” as putting words on a page. However, even from very early on, writers have seen their craft as something more. From Enheduanna, the first named author on record, to Plato and Aristotle, writing has been portrayed and defined in ways that suggest AI may not be “writing” at all. If not, what should we call AI text? ChatGPT and I have an idea. Praising and pleading Enheduanna, who lived around 2,300 B.C.E., was a powerful princess, priestess and poet of the Akkadian Empire, in what is now Iraq. She has been celebrated as the earliest known writer, though the authorship of her poems and hymns is debated. One of her poems, “The Exaltation of Inanna,” reveals a sense of what writing is and does – portraying it as a living medium that expresses experience and shapes the future. First, the …

Mean Girl Handwriting Litmus Test Usually Reveals If Someone Is A Good Person

Mean Girl Handwriting Litmus Test Usually Reveals If Someone Is A Good Person

Published by Jenni Sidey

In a time when we’re used to typing out words much more than we write them, it might seem like analyzing someone’s handwriting is pretty irrelevant. There’s a theory that suggests a certain style of writing should be avoided at all costs, though. Handwriting feels pretty random, but experts say it can be meaningful. For example, a 2022 study found that a person’s handwriting is typically linked to their personality. The idea that you can tell everything you need to know about someone based on their handwriting sounds like an overgeneralization, but some people swear by it. One woman claimed that a glance at someone’s handwriting is all you need to determine if they’re ‘pure in heart.’ Content creator Brighton insisted that “the mean girl litmus test is giving her a pen and paper” in a TikTok video. She used her friend Zoe as an example. “Her handwriting? Proof that she is pure in heart,” she insisted. “I’m just saying that there’s mean girl handwriting and she doesn’t have it.” Zoe wouldn’t let Brighton show …

reMarkable Paper Pure writing tablet review: A true digital notebook replacement

reMarkable Paper Pure writing tablet review: A true digital notebook replacement

Published by Jenni Sidey

Sign Up For Goods 🛍️ Product news, reviews, and must-have deals. My AP English teacher in 12th grade said I had writing that “looked like something you’d find in a serial killer’s notebook.” She wasn’t wrong, but I’ve always liked writing things by hand. I’ve used reMarkable’s paper-emulating tablets in the past, but I was never so committed to my chicken scratch that I could justify the price. Now, the company has introduced its most affordable model. The Paper Pure is the cheaper sibling to reMarkable’s flagship Paper Pro, and it gets there by stripping out the features that paper, the actual material, also doesn’t have. You won’t find color e-ink and there’s no built-in illumination. You will, however, get a paper-like writing experience with the included Marker, and the device has nestled easily into my everyday workflow. reMarkable Paper Pure $399 See It What is it? The reMarkable Paper Pure is technically a tablet due to its form factor, but don’t expect anything in the neighborhood of an iPad replacement. This is a digital …

Experimental war novel wins Pulitzer with unique writing style as Bess Wohl takes drama prize

Experimental war novel wins Pulitzer with unique writing style as Bess Wohl takes drama prize

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The Pulitzer Prize for fiction has been awarded to Daniel Kraus, an author known for fantasy, horror, and young adult novels, for his World War I narrative, Angel Down, notably told in a single, continuous sentence. Bess Wohl’s Liberation, exploring 1970s feminist consciousness-raising groups, secured the drama prize. Kraus, 50, boasts a diverse career, including collaborations with filmmakers George Romero and Guillermo del Toro. The Pulitzer committee lauded Angel Down as “a stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as allegory, magical realism, and science fiction into a cohesive whole, told in a single sentence.” From left, “Angel Down” by Daniel Kraus, “Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution” by Amanda Vail,” “There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” by Brian Goldstone, “Things in Nature Merely Grow” by Yiyun Li, and “We the People: …

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

Published by skeptic

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia flourished in the centuries to come, partly because writing helped states control the flow of goods and consolidate power. The pen (or ancient stylus) was mightier than the sword. Or so the conventional story goes. But there is a glaring omission here because, at the dawn of writing, there weren’t two scripts. There were three. That third, mysterious script, called proto-Elamite, appeared in ancient Iran while cuneiform and hieroglyphs were both in their infancy – and has been shockingly overlooked by all but a handful of scholars since its discovery 125 years ago. That is beginning to change, with far-reaching consequences. Although proto-Elamite remains largely undeciphered, there is tantalising evidence that it became by far the most advanced of the three scripts in operation about 5000 years ago. What we now know about the script’s story is so surprising and counterintuitive that we might need to rewrite …