by Nick Kolakowski | Mar 23, 2022 | Noir
When the pandemic started, I spent a lot of time playing around with a software platform called GPT-3, which generates text based on whatever you input into it; newspapers such as The Guardian have experimented with using GPT-3 to produce articles, for example. I...
by Nick Kolakowski | Feb 1, 2022 | Pop Culture
So I decided to kill someone with a drone. In fiction, I mean. It was a crucial moment in the writing of my novel “Love & Bullets.” One of the protagonists, an Elvis-loving assassin with a penchant for fast food and navel-gazing, had to wipe out a...
by Nick Kolakowski | Jan 11, 2022 | Pop Culture
As a writer and editor who focuses largely on tech, I was instantly intrigued a few years back when OpenAI, the nonprofit ostensibly designed to prevent A.I. from being used in terrible ways, announced that it had created a “large-scale unsupervised language model”...
by Nick Kolakowski | Dec 13, 2021 | Pop Culture
Vampires, it seems, will never lose their popularity. Just witness the recent (and very public) burst of grief over the death of Anne Rice, famous for writing “Interview with the Vampire.” Movie studios and streaming companies continue to pump out lots of vampire...
by Nick Kolakowski | Dec 4, 2021 | Pop Culture
For many folks, the terms “noir” and “crime fiction” are synonymous with big cities. There’s the stereotypical imagery of bank robbers and fedora-topped detectives stalking the mean, rain-slicked streets. But of course, crime fiction can take place anywhere —...
