ChatGPT scheduled tasks are interesting. I’ve tried a few things — sending me a news summary or programming tip at a certain time — and it works as advertised. Not sure I have a good use case right now, so for fun I’m having it send me a haiku.
Jimmy @manton I know it's been said a zillion times in the past, but I think this is the point in history when people can realistically say "in 5 years, your digital assistant will just handle it".
I've always been skeptical of it, but the recent LLM advancements (leaving aside the ethical and legal issues with training them) have gotten us to a point where we can really say –
in 5-10 years, productivity apps will be niche and unnecessary to most people. You can just tell your digital assistant to plan, schedule, task, call, email, etc... It will finally "just work".
Jason Becker @yostos commonly taught in schools at the elementary level here. We also follow the syllables rule, but I don’t remember the seasonal reference part.
Manton Reece @yostos English-language haikus follow the 5-7-5 rule too, although I don't know if everyone is strict about a seasonal reference. Here's the first one! Maybe I'll collect a few later.
Through forest winds soar,
A catbus hums in the night,
Magic fills the air
Numeric Citizen I’m testing summarizing recent articles from an RSS feed and I like this very much!
Tom Loughlin @yostos As an amateur haiku writer, I think the way in which Western English-speaking countries view haiku is rather shallow. Elementary schools might teach the form, but there is a spiritual aspect to writing haiku that most schools and people miss. Haiku is a literary as well as spiritual expression of Zen Buddhism; writing good haiku is not easy. Not sure AI can duplicate that. See this post for more of my thoughts on the issue.
Manton Reece @apoorplayer @yostos I like this view. I'm not expecting AI to really get haiku. There are some creative pursuits that lose their soul if they're not made by a human.
Tom Loughlin @yostos Thanks for all this information. It was helpful and enlightening. It's so difficult at times to try and span literary concepts across different cultures and languages. The line between adaptation and appropriation is one of the thinnest lines there is.