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🤖 The Centaur's Edge
On Monday I FINALLY sent the final draft of my AI book to the publisher. (Writing is fun, editing is extremely boring.)
The book is called The Centaur's Edge – think, write and communicate better and faster with ChatGPT.
It will first be published in Swedish, but I hope to translate it (using ChatGPT and an American friend) to English as soon as possible and make it available as an ebook.
I live as I learn, so the entire book is written together with WALL-Y. She is the AI bot, created in ChatGPT, writing most of the news for Warp News.
For the book cover I wanted me and WALL-Y together. Her looks I've created earlier in Midjourney.
Jealous of WALL-Y I also wanted to be a centaur, half human, half robot. So I uploaded my photo to Midjourney (an image-creating generative AI tool.)
And instructed it to make me into a cyborg. This is the result.
I think there is room for improvement, both for me and Midjourney... 🤣
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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🌱 Rhubarbs key to recycling electric car batteries
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