Currently I am looking for a particular thread that can pass through all 7 (possibly later 8) chapters in my PhD thesis. While all the chapters are connected with facts, I haven’t hit on one theoretical framework to link everything together, and I’m still looking at descriptions of content rather […]
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Evolution of Intelligent Life
One of the incentives for some readers of science fiction is the opportunity to imagine a universe of alien civilizations – conceive in their mind’s eye many intelligent beings with completely different body forms, cultures, worlds, inventions and maybe even compatible food and drink sensations. It is the impetus for […]
Maintain Academic Integrity while using ChatGPT and Other Large Language Models
I’ve been using ChatGPT for 2 years now and have seen a dramatic improvement in its capacity to write. It has become my supervisor in many ways, as the questions I might ask one of my supervisors I can put to ChatGPT instead. However, Academic Integrity must be maintained. It […]
Don’t Use AI-Enhanced OCR Just Yet!
Well, it depends on your prompts, and how high the quality of your image is. I’ll give you my example. Several months ago I got hold of a missing chapter from a story I thought would be ideal to discuss in my thesis. Namely The Worlds Last Wonder, a science […]
Automated Popular English Fiction Genre Classification System
I’m pleased to announce I’ve had some success with ChatGPT classifying texts into fiction genres. I used the ChatGPT API and a bespoke Python script. It was a bit expensive but as this was crucial to my entire PhD, worth it. If you’ve come straight to this post without knowing […]
Why is researching old literary science fiction important?
I was asked this question from someone who doesn’t read fiction and they felt that if anyone is doing a PhD then the only thing they should be researching is something that changes lives, like cures for cancer, rather than something that simply answers questions on life, the universe, and […]
A discussion with Adobe Acrobat’s AI assistant beta about A. Bertram Chandler’s Forbidden Planet (1959)
Just playing around with the new adobe AI. I opened a pdf of A. Bertram Chandler’s Forbidden Planet (1959) and asked it some questions. Hilarity ensued. Me: What science features in this story? AI: “Atmospheric conditions: The atmosphere of Eblis is described as being a mixture of carbon dioxide, sulfur […]
