Tom GammarinoScience Fiction Tried to Warn Us About AI. Or Did It?Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is the literary work that most clearly established the conventions of science fiction as we know it. Not only…Mar 2, 2023Mar 2, 2023
Tom GammarinoInterface: What Happens When Siri Starts Wanting a Body?This short story was originally published in April 2021 in The Hawaiʻi Pacific Review and was subsequently nominated for the Pushcart…Feb 16, 20231Feb 16, 20231
Tom GammarinoArt Pollution: What Is AI Doing To Our Sense of Beauty?During college, I made regular visits to the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, one of the most impressive modern art collections in the…Feb 2, 20232Feb 2, 20232
Tom GammarinoAI, Nick Cave, and the Annihilation of the Human HeartOpposition to generative AI comes in many flavors. People worry about what these technologies will do to our jobs, about the intellectual…Jan 23, 20235Jan 23, 20235
Tom GammarinoCourse Corrections: How to Be an Even Better Writing Teacher in the Age of ChatGPTLast week, I published a piece about my first encounter with AI “plagiarism” as a high school English teacher. Now that the spring semester…Jan 3, 20234Jan 3, 20234
Tom GammarinoThe Strange Inversion: How Human-like Machines Reveal Our Robot-like NatureQuite a few of us non-artificial intelligences (a.k.a. people) have been thrown into a panic by the existence of ChatGPT, not because it’s…Dec 28, 20223Dec 28, 20223
Tom GammarinoOn My First Case of AI Plagiarism (If That’s the Word)It happened. My student used ChatGPT to write their final paper in my English class. How do I know? I don’t. That’s the problem.Dec 23, 20226Dec 23, 20226
Tom GammarinoIs ChatGPT Good for the World? And Who Will We Hold Accountable If It’s Not?When OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT on the world a couple of weeks back, it marked a clear line in the sand between the world we used to live in…Dec 19, 20224Dec 19, 20224