This is the collection of posts documenting the use of AI in the research and writing of the Memoir Project. The order is Oldest to Newest for the sake of reading continuity. Watch for links that connect the Field Notes to the associated memoir vignettes or chapters. A link could take you to Substack if the memoir chapter hasn’t been added to this site yet.
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What are the AI Field Notes
Read more: What are the AI Field NotesA transparent look at how Artificial Intelligence is used in this project—what it contributes, where it falls short, and how it shapes the work as it unfolds. The AI Field Notes are working notes on how I am using artificial intelligence as a thinking, research, and writing partner in the Memoir Project. They are not tutorials, prompt…
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My early days with AI
Read more: My early days with AIThe Honeymoon Period—Part 1 AI Field Notes for Leaving the Gap If this project bombs, I’m going to blame Scott Z. Burns. Burns is the screenwriter of the 2011 movie, Contagion. Its resurgent popularity in 2020, due to its uncanny foreshadowing of the Covid-19 pandemic, was one of the factors that prompted Burns and Contagion director Steven Soderbergh, to begin…
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My Early Days With AI — The Honeymoon Period, Part 2
Read more: My Early Days With AI — The Honeymoon Period, Part 2AI Field Notes for An Ordinary Day I feel I’ve confirmed the validity of this notion—of quickly concocting an interesting narrative out of personal history, good prompts, AI historical research, AI composition, and light human editing. Now I want to do a vignette on the day I was born. I choose this because it’s a brief…