Author: nannyrhops

Robots Can’t Laugh

Whatever you may be thinking about AI, I hope it is NOT that we humans are in competition, and that AI could “win,” whatever that means.  Give yourself some credit!  Just remember — we can laugh,...

Deaf Republic: Book Review

Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic, London: Faber and Faber, 2019. You might wonder, as I did, whether I was reading a fable, a myth, a folktale, a parable, or something else, something different.  Of course...

The Years: Book Review

It’s as if I’ve just read my own biography. I haven’t, of course: The Years is clearly ordered and clearly labelled as Ernaux’s autobiography, or memoire, from the date of her birth in 1941...

Training robots?

LinkedIn advertises quite a few job opportunities in the “AI training” area. Please, fellow writers, don’t squander your hard-earned human skill on robots! Writing is a way for humans to discover, invent and evolve,...