This is a review of John Warner's More Than Words: How to Think about Writing in the Age of AI. I haven't read the book because, well, books cost money, and I'm still working on Mark Carney's Value(s) (which is really good, by the way). Anyhow, Werner's thesis is that "ChatGPT cannot write" because "writing is thinking". I get the concept (which probably required less than 300 pages to explain). "Writing, Warner says, is a process in which 'the idea may change based on our attempts to capture it.'" This happens with me less often with writing (except for these 100 word tidbits I write in OLDaily) and more often with speaking (which is why I consider my talks my primary academic output). What chatGPT doesn't do when writing, that I and other humans do, is to interpret experience. That, though, may change in the future when chatGPT has more than just human text as input.
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