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Right now, the fiction generated by large language models like ChatGPT is terrible, but one can imagine that such programs might improve in the future. Could they get better than humans at writing—or making paintings or movies? The author Ted Chiang argues that such a belief misunderstands what art is, and why we make it. “Whether you are creating a novel or a painting or a film, you are engaged in an act of communication between you and your audience. What you create doesn’t have to be…

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Ted Chiang: Stories of Your Life | Life, Stories, Chapbook

Working back from January 2011, we're exceedingly happy to announce that in October 2010 we will bring Ted Chiang's first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, back into print. The title story alone is a knockout and then there are those seven other stories, which together have received a ton of awards and make

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The Physics of Time Travel: Exploring Albert Einstein and Ted Chiang's Insights

Have you ever wanted to time travel? Modern physics shows that it's possible to manipulate time. But does that mean we can travel to the past? And what does this say about what time actually is? The last word often comes from physicists, but there are many definitions of time. Guests: sci-fi writer Ted Chiang (17:16), physicist Ron Mallet (9:02), and philosopher Heather Dyke (3:00). Part 2 of 6. Hosted by Rebecca Asoulin and Eoin O'Carroll. Visit csmonitor.com/time for the full transcript…

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The Meaning of Math in the Universe

She, like many, had always thought that math did not derive its meaning from the universe, but rather imposed some meaning onto the universe. Physical entities were not greater or less than one another; they simply were, they existed. Math was totally independent, but it virtually provided a semantic meaning for those entities, supplying categories and relationships. It didn’t describe any intrinsic quality, merely a possible interpretation. - Ted Chiang

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