Publishers aren’t going to replace writers with AI. Startups are already doing it.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Startups are popping up that use new AI tools to bypass traditional publishing and distribution systems entirely.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Startups are popping up that use new AI tools to bypass traditional publishing and distribution systems entirely.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Over the short span of just 300 years, since the invention of modern physics, we have gained a deeper understanding of how our universe works on both small and large scales. Yet, physics is still very young and when it comes to using it to explain life, physicists struggle.
Reading Time: 4 minutes I use Otter AI, Canva, and Notion nearly every day, and here is why other writers should, too.
Reading Time: 5 minutes The idea of a multiverse consisting of “parallel universes” is a popular science fiction trope, recently explored in the Oscar-winning movie Everything Everywhere All At Once. However, it is within the realm of scientific possibility.
Reading Time: 3 minutes According to a paper released last fall by researchers from Google, Stanford, and MIT, large language models learn new information and concepts by creating new, miniature machine learning systems on the fly.
Reading Time: 5 minutes NASA recently announced the discovery of a new, Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a nearby star called TOI-700.
Reading Time: 5 minutes So it doesn’t have facts, per se. It just knows what word should come next. Put another way, ChatGPT doesn’t try to write sentences that are true. But it does try to write sentences that are plausible.
Reading Time: 9 minutes In the battle against AI-generated spam, some people are turning to AI detectors to weed out AI-generated content. Unfortunately, they don’t work.
Reading Time: 10 minutes There are a lot of myths and misunderstandings about what ChatGPT can do and how it works. Most people tend to fall on one of two extremes — either that it’s all-powerful and will destroy the writing profession, or that it’s completely useless. The actual truth is somewhere in the middle.
Reading Time: 3 minutes You can make a high-quality film on a small budget, if you plan and manage it right. Here’s advice from someone who’s done it.
Reading Time: 11 minutes If you want to be successful as a human author in an age of AI-generated content, you will need to make your writing Personal, Emotional, Authoritative, New, Unique, and Trustworthy — PEANUT, for short.
Reading Time: 11 minutes As writers progress in their writing journeys, they may face a drop in confidence and obstacles along the way. To overcome these challenges, focus on core skills, keep practicing, and level up by learning a new skill that aligns with your goals.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Mermaids have become a cultural phenomenon, and clashes about mermaids and race have spilled out into the open. This is most pointedly apparent in the backlash over Disney’s much-anticipated “The Little Mermaid.”
Reading Time: 5 minutes Imagine that a soldier has a tiny computer device injected into their bloodstream that can be guided with a magnet to specific regions of their brain. With training, the soldier could then control weapon systems thousands of miles away using their thoughts alone.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Quantum mechanics, the theory which rules the microworld of atoms and particles, certainly has the X factor. Unlike many other areas of physics, it is bizarre and counter-intuitive, which makes it dazzling and intriguing.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Fake photography is nothing new. In the 1910s, British author Arthur Conan Doyle was famously deceived by two school-aged sisters who had produced photographs of elegant fairies cavorting in their garden.
Reading Time: 4 minutes The combination of human creativity and the efficient functionality of AI will bring radical changes across the globe.
Reading Time: 7 minutes As an author, I’ve found grounding my science fiction in reality produces a more layered, immersive tale. Science fiction stories often occur in space. So, sci-fi readers and authors may appreciate this introduction to a relevant real-world organization, the United States Space Force, or USSF. The US Space Force Is No Joke Perhaps the first …
Reading Time: 8 minutes What I have a hard time believing is that a Reptilian would be clueless enough to think a wife wants to be woken up in the middle of the night to have sex with her husband.
Reading Time: 6 minutes The term “metaverse” was first coined in Neal Stephenson’s 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash. He used it to refer to an immersive, virtual reality world in which people are embodied as their avatars.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Emotional Truth from Odyssey Writing Workshops is a 5-week class that does a deep dive on techniques to heighten the emotional quality of your writing.
Reading Time: 2 minutes I never should have trusted him. Sure, he’s incredible with his fans. But I feel so betrayed.
Reading Time: 4 minutes While we still don’t have the flying cars, time machines, and holographic movies that sci-fi has long offered us, though other predictions have come to life, such as the Star Trek communicators that became Motorola flip phones. Today, virtual fiction is having its moment in the spotlight as the tech world leans into the metaverse.
Reading Time: 11 minutes The real history of stage magic in the 19th century was as hectic and violent as director Christopher Nolan portrays in The Prestige.
Reading Time: 5 minutes There is a troubling aspect to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In the first edition, the Oompa-Loompas are black pygmies who Wonka imports from “the deepest and darkest part of the African jungle” and enslaves in his factory.
Reading Time: 6 minutes It is hard to judge the effect that last year’s unequivocal confirmation of real UFO footage— captured by real navy pilots—has had on the common man or woman. But this new bill surely proves that the topic of UFOs has moved beyond the eye-rolling phase of the alien debate. Or does it?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The large and inhospitable sand dunes of the desert planet Arrakis are, of course, very prominent in both the books and film. But just how high would sand dunes be on a realistic version of this world?
Reading Time: 13 minutes The occult has made a strong comeback with gen Z.
Reading Time: 4 minutes You, too, can smell like a witch. Magic and scent were linked in ancient Greece and Rome, and today, you can buy scents that can make you smell like Hermione, Hecate, and other famous witches of literature and history.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Seven visions for the metaverse we’ve been hearing about.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Three scientists set out to determine if it were possible for humans to survive on a planet like Dune. They say yes — but not where you’d expect from reading the book.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Earlier today, actor William Shatner — who played Star Trek’s iconic Captain Kirk on television and in the movies — became the oldest person to ever go to space and helped demonstrate that power of sci-fi to inspire space exploration.
Reading Time: 6 minutes What would lead someone to claim that a fantasy role-playing game like Dungeons and Dragons was a recruiting tool for satan?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The cultural relevance of urban fantasy can be traced back to the time period of its birth — the early nineteenth century — where many were struggling to respond to industrial change and a new economic system.
Reading Time: 4 minutes These holograms, created with mirrors and jets of air, could be the first steps towards a Star Trek-style holodeck.
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Dark Souls videogame shares many elements with the literature of British artists in the Romantic era such as Lord Byron and others from the early 1800s.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Rehearsing the end of the world through film may have desensitized us, lulling us into a false sense of security that all will end well — and that we are immortal.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Romero’s professional ingenuity and powerful metaphors can inspire us during the pandemic.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Robert Stahl has analyzed some favorite horror films to present this list for your consideration.
Reading Time: 3 minutes The rap song “Whitey on the Moon” has new relevance with the recent space trips of billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos.
Reading Time: 4 minutes One of the most interesting tools for thinking about future defense technology isn’t big data forecasting and the use of synthetic training environments, but narrative and imagination. And we get this from science fiction.
Reading Time: 4 minutes The number of planets in the universe is truly astronomical — some are gas giants, like Jupiter in our solar system. Others may be water worlds or ice planets. And some are Earth-like.
Reading Time: 5 minutes New knowledge of quantum fractals could provide the foundations for scientists to experimentally test the theory of quantum consciousness.
Reading Time: 6 minutes NASA recently had to cancel a long-planned spacesuit because of the lack of a spacesuit in the right size. NASA, you broke our hearts.
Reading Time: 4 minutes To take on some of the biggest challenges of the next generation of astronomy, astronomers are turning to AI)to build new tools to rapidly search for the next big breakthroughs.
Reading Time: 15 minutes Denis Villeneuve’s adaption of Dune scheduled to be released this fall in theaters and on HBO Max, but the author’s life is a tale in and of itself.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Two Venus missions will be launched some time between 2028 and 2030, instead of missions to the moons of Jupiter and Neptune. What are we missing out on as a result?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Transhumanists predict that science will enable us to free our minds from bodily constraints. But these ideas actually date back to the 18th century.
Reading Time: 3 minutes More Black writers and artists are turning to science fiction — and an artistic movement known as Afrofuturism — to tackle issues around race and inequality and give fans an escape from the harsh realities on Earth.
Reading Time: 5 minutes If and when they eradicate humans, they would be better suited to space travel. In orbit, octopuses could maneuver much more easily and fit in smaller spaces.