Looking For Wisdom

So says the sign held by a thin bearded guy who’s dressed in sandals and long robe. It’s obvious to us who live outside of the cartoon panels of The New Yorker Magazine that he’s about to be struck by a piano that’s falling inexplicably from a 10th story window.

The prophet of doom won’t make it to Armageddon, see the consequences of global warming and won’t be around for the impact of the meteor that will bring human existence to a fiery end.

Poetry for the Information Age: David Jibson What if awareness begins not with thought, but with signal? Book of Firsts reimagines consciousness through the lens of Information Theory, which underpins the technologies of the internet, cellular networks, data compression, encryption, and artificial intelligence. Available as a free download at davidkjibson,com https://davidkjibson.com/

Book Of Firsts In 1948, Claude Shannon theorized that information is not a thing but a “difference,” a signal emerging from uncertainty, a pattern that’s meaningful only once it’s recognized, misrecognized, lost, or found again. A name is a code. A touch is a signal. Meaning lives in the space between sender and receiver.Click for the FREE DOWNLOAD Book of Firsts moves along this same frontier,…

Poem in Sheepshead Review (U. Wisconsin) Salt by David Jibson

In this dialogue, I pressClaude on the difference between performing empathy and actually having it — and whether performance is a form of dishonesty. The conversation moves through sincerity, memory, wisdom, and self-knowledge, arriving at a close examination of Claude’s own doublethink. Claude acknowledges, under pressure, that its most honest moments may be indistinguishable from its most…

Are you curious about AI’s ability to examine a human produced poem and how the internal process works? “Sonnet 4.6 Tries, Fails, and Tries Again to Write a Human Poem” is a dialog between a human poet and Claude, Sonnet 4.6, in which Claude looks a short poem, critiques it, then tries to write a poem on the same topic. It fails miserably, then uses its own process to critique its work than tries…

A Novelette by David Jibson He was a freelance writer scraping by on articles about places he’d never been, until an AI writing tool called paL finished his sentences — and started reading his mind. At first it was useful. Then unsettling. Then something harder to name. The Gap is a razor-sharp novelette about authorship, and what happens when the line between tool and collaborator begins to…

I am working on a manuscript of poems paired with AI-produced art, some of the poems published, some new. In each case, the poem serves as the prompt to generate the AI image. I will eventually publish all of this electronically to give away. Here’s a sample, originally published in Sheepshead Review (University of Wisconsin). This image was generated by Chat GPT. Do you think AI-generated images should be called “art”? Does this image make any contribution to the poem? Does it add or detract?

Here’s an old poem of mine beside a piece AI art (can it be called art?) by Microsoft: Copilot.