Raymond G. Taylor
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Author living in Kent, England. Writer of short stories and poems in a wide range of genres, forms and styles. A non-fiction writer for 40+ years. Subjects include art, history, science, business, law, and the human condition.
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Free £5 voucher
Dear fellow Beckenham resident, Anyone else reading this may need to adapt for context I thought you would be interested to know that Tesco Elmers End is offering a free £5 (or more) voucher to any Beckenham resident. All you need to do to get this amazing offer is to make a complaint through their new, super-sexy, high-tech, AI chatbot service.
By Raymond G. Taylor9 days ago in Futurism
Tesco: AI and customer service
Please do not read this article. It is not very interesting. It is just the verbatim script of a conversation I had with UK store Tesco's AI chatbot customer service can'thelpline. I have reproduced it verbatim here just for the record. I will send the URL to Tesco Press reps just for fun.
By Raymond G. Taylor9 days ago in Futurism
Which AI. AI-Generated.
Which is best: Chat-GPT or Google Gemini? Don't ask me, I have no idea. Well, actually, I do now. Why? Because I asked my 'AI' friend Gemini (a large language model, trained by Google and based on the Gemini architecture). Are the answers I got from Gemini accurate? Who knows? For that matter, who cares? If accuracy was an issue I would check and verify, just like when I read a non-fiction article or book for any serious research I might be doing. Come on, folks, it ain't rocket science.
By Raymond G. Taylor2 months ago in Futurism
Can AI help me get it right
Not being a professor of literature or otherwise a poetry expert, I sometimes struggle when writing poetry to get it right. By this I mean to get the structure and style right, particularly with formal and traditional kinds of verse. And sometimes I just can’t think of the words.
By Raymond G. Taylor3 months ago in Futurism
Which is the monster
Can a natural-language, text-generative computer program (aka 'AI') be used to write an interesting, entertaining, engaging fictional story with a 'human' feel to it? If it can, I have yet to read one. The AI-generated stories I have read, even the better ones, have a wooden, rigid, clumsy obvious feel to them that takes away any of the joy of reading. But this technology is improving rapidly so who knows where it may lead us?
By Raymond G. Taylor10 months ago in Futurism
A brand new story. AI-Generated.
The following story has been generated by an AI language model that Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, says is "good at creative writing." The prompt string used by Altman is included in the narrative, all posted on X (Twitter) by Altman on March 11, 2025. Read the tweet.
By Raymond G. Taylor11 months ago in Futurism
Critic, appraise thyself
A closer look at the poem generated using Google's large language model, Gemini: The Moon, a Pearl in Velvet Skies," "through a lens of literary criticism," also provided by Gemini. Just to be clear, the poem (linked above) was generated by Gemini against a request written by me. After using Gemini to create this poem, I asked Gemini to generate a critique of its own poem. I did this as part of my ongoing investigation into the usefulness of generative AI, problems and pitfalls. I hope you find the results instructive, as I have I.
By Raymond G. Taylor12 months ago in Futurism
Poetic expression and the large language model . AI-Generated.
What do you think of the following verse, which is entirely AI-generated? As part of an ongoing study into the capabilities of generative 'artificial intelligence', I used the following input string to request that Google's Large Language Model, Gemini:
By Raymond G. Taylor12 months ago in Futurism
