Some of you might know that somehow, impossibly, I was selected to be the Official Historian for the Town of Elmira. I hope this does not shake your faith in local government.....
Below is an excerpt from the first "essay" that I did for them. Click the link to see the essay in full.
I am going to attempt to get one of these out per month.
Samuel Clemens was well known for embracing new technology and rapidly incorporating it into his personal and professional life. He purchased a Remington typewriter in the 1870’s, was one of the first people in Hartford to have a telephone installed in his residence, experimented with dictation machines to augment his writing output, and when he originally built his home in CT, he made sure it was equipped with electric lights. Clemens was certainly interested and inspired by technological innovation, both in day-to-day life, and specifically for his writing.
We are currently at the dawning of a new chapter in the Information Age, one that is rapidly becoming dominated by the tremendous leaps that Artificial Intelligence is making. I have no doubt, if ChatGPT would have co-existed with Samuel Clemens, he would have experimented with it, and possibly, would have used it within his writing in some fashion....more.....
Here is the link to the full essay
https://townofelmira.com/post/_docs/MARK_TWAIN_AND_CHATgpt_doc.pdf
And here is the Town of Elmira "Historian Page"
https://townofelmira.com/post.php?pid=812
PLEASE NOTE: I did not write all of the essays on the Town History Page. Many are by my predecessor Scott W. Deming
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