After all, what could possibly go wrong as AI gets increasingly good at doing you?
The thing I perhaps dread most in life is having to write a skin-crawlingly puffed-up promo piece for my academic performance review each year.
And the second is writing a skin-crawlingly puffed-up promo piece for a new book release.
Which is unfortunate, as I find myself faced with doing precisely this with the formal launch today of the new book AI and the Art of Being Human.
I may be exaggerating just a bit here. But the reality is that, despite writing being integral to who I am, writing about stuff I’ve done and why people should care about it makes me feel more of a self-aggrandizing fraud with each miserable draft that emerges.
And so this time round with the book launch I’ve decided to ditch convention, blow the consequences, and write what I want rather than what I probably should.
So here goes …
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