Learning Futures

Sc(AI)ry Stories

Episode Summary

In the spirit of Halloween 2023 - Sean & Jake pull together a fun compendium of short stories for a special "spooky" episode. Each short story represents some amalgamation of human and AI generated story (and narration).

Episode Notes

In the spirit of Halloween - Sean (with the help of producer extraordinaire Jake)  pull together a fun compendium of short stories from some of our colleagues and listeners for a special “spooky” episode of the Learning Futures Podcast. 

The Challenge: Create an original short story (about, with, or through) Generative AI, in the spirit of emerging technologies, AI, the future of humanity etc. in the spirit of Halloween. These can be any genre, they can be spooky, funny, creepy, suspenseful, thought provoking, thoughtful, or any combination of the lot. Have fun with this idea. It could be created in any way, and with as much or as little assitwnace from GenAI tools as the author wished. It needed to stay short, 500 words or less or less than 5 minutes of record time. 

Learning Futures Podcast: Sc(AI)ry Stories: A Compendium

• Cauldron Collaboration: by Charla Griffy-Brown, Replica AI called Kira, and prompt engineer James Fields  [Narrated by Eleven Labs]
• The Experiment: by Danah Henriksen, using Bing AI (set to creative mode) [Narrated by Eleven Labs]
• The Assistant: by Jacob Snider, using Claude2, and voice narration by Eleven Labs
• An Echo in the Code: by Sean Leahy, using ChatGPT and narrated by Eleven Labs
• Lost in Recognition: by Kellie Kreiser, using ChatGPT and cloned AI voice
• Vikram or Vetal: by Punya Mishra, using ChatGPT and Bing AI.

Alternative cover art: (if your podcast player supports it) was created in MidJourney with the prompt: "spooky halloween illustration with pumpkins and ghosts, robots and other technology"