One perfect way to explain generative AI is that we “build worlds with prose”. A little story that discribes the rules of the world, and what it looks and acts like. The result: an imagination driven by your storytelling skills.
“Building Worlds With Prose” was coined by Ron Kersic in one of our podcast episodes of It’s Just A Model. It struck me as a very apt way to describe how we ‘work’ the generative AI’s and how they respond to us.
Not only do AI make an entire new world with every prompt, reimagining the world if you will. And the ambivalent nature of our natural language is used as a source of inspiration and variance.
Not everybody likes this ‘reset and forget’ nature of AI, as if it looks at the world anew every time it’s called upon. These people might like exacting and iterative, or incremental improvements and rather get a total reimagined result, triggering the feeling of playing whack a mole.
I however stand by this feature as a superpower and way to also hone your own storytelling. So, we might temporarily changed from builders to storytellers. We moved from people that know what a result looks like, to people that know how to build a world that is conducive to certain results.
So the challenge to you: hone your storytelling and tell a story that helps people and AI to imagine the world as you have build it in your mind.
World Building with Prose
