Could Great Writers Participate In Building AI Tools Beyond Feedback and Optimisation?

I like to try out AI tools and their new features but here's why the intelligence still feels artificial to me. It is based on data. I am probably the 8 billionth person on this planet mentioning this, while understanding the reason for dependence on data and statistics for building AI assistants. I have been trying to use AI tools for efficiency but here's why I am still not able to fully embrace it for writing — no matter how many times I refine my prompts, I simply cannot get the final result right. Right is not really the word for it, because technically all the information is presented well, in proper structured format, but that human element of a writer goes missing. That's why for long form articles and social media posts, I still prefer writing on my own. But today, it felt like the right time to present a full long-form blog post written by AI. I wanted to write this post about involving great writers in the design and development of AI tools (for writing) and not just in the feedback loops. The field of AI engages brilliant minds and maybe its time to welcome great writers in that league. Writing is one of the most creative and intellectual professions, if we lose that, if emerging writers become prompt-writers only, we may lose a lot in the world. Textbooks, research papers, technical documentation, market projections, etc. that the technology-based industries thrive on cannot survive for long if all the writing have to uploaded to and downloaded from the same tools that their competitiors are using. The world of self-help books continue to help people because all these years the authors had poured in their own beliefs and ways of perceiving the world into the universal truths for success (and productivity). Biographies, autobiographies, classic literature, poetry, contemporary fiction, Harry Potter, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy, The Little Prince, Parineeta, millions of texts in all the beautifully diverse languages in the world — they all have the most important elements of a human society. Great authors use imagination along with information, and a myriad other elements that I only wish I knew. That process sometimes leads to an award-winning novel or the most brilliant pitch deck a VC has ever seen. Music and movies — the two pillars of my life besides books that I cannot live without. I am dedicating this entire paragraph to them. Not the same. That's all.

Even the short form videos that we are enjoying so much, our minds recognise the difference between a human-written script and an AI-generated one. The tools have definitely benefitted advertising, copywriting, and I commend the builders for helping people communicate professionally who otherwise would shy away for their language skills. The fields of probability, statistics, machine learning, robotics have made a lot of progress, and it's fine by me if they are yet to live up to the promises of building civilisations on Europa. Good things take time someone said. AI is growing in its own ways with data, humans are evolving on their own. But there seems to be a thin invisible filament separating that perfect humanoid connecting to the humans on the other side. And we are struggling to understand what that filament is made of. Which is why you have reached the end of this blog post and still not seen that AI written article on this topic. It was correct, but it wasn't me. I have been reading books of people sharing brilliant stories of how they have overcome difficulties to achieve success, they all read the same. People from different backgrounds and unique circumstances, tied together by a predictable vocabulary. Technically the tools make sense for efficiency, but writing style is that human element in texts. That's what makes our ways of communication different than the surrounding humans. Writing adds language to our thoughts. But as always, the human body keeps proving how difficult it is to understand and capture human consciousness — maybe because we didn't get to design human systems? About the Author : Sumana Mukherjee is the founder of Sustainaverse, and is trying to explore if living on Earth and in outer space are part of the same conversation.

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