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And many improvements we will see will largely be in the [[meatware]]: as we refine and elaborate our queries; we learn how better to frame our queries, and “prompt-engineering” becomes the skill, rather than the dumb, parallel pattern-matching process that responds to it. Ours is the skill going in, and ours is the skill construing the output. What the machine does is the boring bit. | And many improvements we will see will largely be in the [[meatware]]: as we refine and elaborate our queries; we learn how better to frame our queries, and “prompt-engineering” becomes the skill, rather than the dumb, parallel pattern-matching process that responds to it. Ours is the skill going in, and ours is the skill construing the output. What the machine does is the boring bit. | ||
In all kinds of literature ''bar one'', construal is where the real magic happens: it is the [[Emergent|emergent]] creative act that renders ''King Lear'' | In all kinds of literature ''bar one'', construal is where the real magic happens: it is the [[Emergent|emergent]] creative act and community consensus that renders ''King Lear'' a timeless cultural leviathan and {{br|Dracula: The Undead}} forgettable pap.<ref>Maybe not ''that'' forgettable, come to think of it: it has stayed with me 15 years, after all.</ref> A literary work may start with the text, but it barely stays there for a moment. The “meaning” of literature is necessarily personal to the reader: it lives between our ears, and within the cultural milieu that interconnects the reading population.<ref>Call me post modern — go on, do — but I don't hold with Carl Sagan’s idea that a book teleports its author “inside our heads”. That would be to equate reading with symbol-processing. It absolutely isn’t, and that metaphor gravely underestimates the human brain when in construction mode. </ref> | ||
“Construal” and “construction” are interchangeable in this sense: over time that cultural milieu takes the received corpus of literature and, literally, ''constructs'' it into edifices its authors can have scarce have imagined. ''Hamlet'' speaks, still, to the social and human dilemmas of the twenty-first century in ways Shakespeare cannot possibly have contemplated.<ref>A bit ironic that Microsoft should call its chatbot “Bard”, of all things.</ref> | “Construal” and “construction” are interchangeable in this sense: over time that cultural milieu takes the received corpus of literature and, literally, ''constructs'' it into edifices its authors can have scarce have imagined. ''Hamlet'' speaks, still, to the social and human dilemmas of the twenty-first century in ways Shakespeare cannot possibly have contemplated.<ref>A bit ironic that Microsoft should call its chatbot “Bard”, of all things.</ref> | ||