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Writing effective descriptions

Descriptive writing is a powerful tool that adds life and depth to your writing. Effective descriptions breathe life into your ideas and put the reader in the scene where those ideas live. If I want ...

How AI prompting turned writerly description into an everyday skill

Writing prompts to generate images combines two literary tasks at once: the realist description of concrete things and the ...
Opinion
The New YorkerOpinion

Can A.I. Produce Writing That We Actually Want to Read?

In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about the ways that A.I. has changed their classrooms. Most felt despair over the breakdown of a ...
eWeek

Google Reveals 6 Ways to Get Better AI Songs with Gemini’s Lyria 3

Lyria 3 in the Gemini app lets users create AI-generated 30-second music tracks. Google shares six tips for better prompting ...
Edutopia

6 Cool Visual Thinking Activities That Strengthen Student Writing

When readers crack open J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, they encounter detailed maps of Middle-earth—the fictional landscape of mountain ranges, rivers, forests, and marshes where the story ...
CNN

Scientist turns people’s mental images into text using ‘mind-captioning’ technology

A scientist in Japan has developed a technique that uses brain scans and artificial intelligence to turn a person’s mental images into accurate, descriptive sentences. While there has been progress in ...
The New York Times

With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition

The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for. By Nitsuh Abebe There are countless signals you might look for to determine whether a ...
The Conversation

What are the key purposes of human writing? How we name AI‑generated text confuses things

As another school year returns, large language models (LLMs) present difficult questions around learning, thinking, plagiarism and authorship for educators. As an assistant professor of English whose ...
ZDNet

People are using ChatGPT to write their text messages - here's how you can tell

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
CNET

This AI Writing Detector Shows Its Work. For Me, It's a Step in the Right Direction

Apps that purport to spot AI-generated text have a trust issue. The solution may be more transparency about what they find. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows 11 Notepad gets AI-powered text writing capabilities

Microsoft is testing a new AI-powered text generation feature in Notepad that can let Windows Insiders create content based on custom prompts. Dubbed "Write," the new Notepad feature is rolling out to ...