Great fun to go hear Mr Gum creator Andy Stanton talk about his new book, Benny and the Blue Whale this week.
Andy is a very talented children’s writer – but so much more too, and his deep dive into language and how he used ChatGPT to create a very extraordinary story about a whale with a tiny penis, turns out to be a wonderful meditation on human creativity.
Go get a copy. It’s very good.
I was very surprised to be called upon in the Q&A as someone asked Andy ‘where did AI come from’, and he turned to the audience and said, ‘well, I think there’s someone here who’s written a book about exactly that,’ and then asked me to say a little something. That was not in the script! But lovely nonetheless. Do go read the book!
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