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Until I ventured inside the sprawling Google exhibit at CES 2024, I had been unaware of Bard AI. As a writer, I was intrigued to learn that it can write documents based on what it learns from a variety of sources. While I have no interest whatsoever in giving Bard topics and asking it to write my “AutoMatters & More” columns, I am interested in exploring how Bard might be used as a useful tool to proofread what I write. That could enable me to do the routine stuff more quickly and have more time to spend developing the creative side of my message. I already use AI this way in my very time-consuming photo editing process. I used to do repetitive but necessary tasks, like reducing high ISO noise in my photos that are taken in very low light, with manually adjusted photo editing tools. Bard query screen on cell phone These days I use a program called “Topaz Photo AI.” While it allows a variety of manual adjustments, often the AI-powered default adjustments are good enough. I already use software tools to flag possible typos and other such technical writing errors. Can Bard do more than that, while leaving the creative aspects of my writing to me? Early drafts of my “AutoMatters & More” columns usually exceed 750 words — often in the 800-900 words range, and sometimes even more. Yet publications expect approximately 750 words. Could Bard help me write to a word count without replacing my creative, original content with its own, that would entirely be based upon other people’s work? Using fewer words to say the same thing, and avoiding redundancy will only eliminate a relatively small number of words. The rough draft of this column had ballooned to nearly 1,200 words. How much could Bard help me by only cleaning up things like spelling mistakes and redundancy? Screenshot of how Bard edited a long, early version of this column At bard.google.com, I began my research by entering this at Bard’s prompt: “Tell me how […]
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As of today, I’ve shared more than 1,700 poetry prompts on this site over the years. One per day (and
Marcus Kliewer is the author of the speculative novel, We Used to Live Here. (Brian Van Wyk) The Next Chapter21:01How
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