After my last post, (When My Blog Became a Video: Testing NotebookLM’s “Video Overview”). where I introduced you to NotebookLM, I found myself thinking about how best to share future AI experiments. Some ideas simply needed a video format, so I’ve launched a brand-new YouTube channel: The AI Grandad.
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Every so often, I find myself watching the cursor blink, and the strangest thing happens. I type a prompt. The AI thinks for a moment. Then, as if conjured from nowhere, a fully formed short story appears on the screen. Sometimes, it even goes back and improves itself. It analyses tone, tightens the structure, sharpens the language.
And I sit there, cup of tea cooling beside me, wondering… where do I fit in now?
It’s a quiet sort of unease. When I first started writing, it was all mine, the hours spent choosing words, the quiet satisfaction of crafting a line that finally worked. The blank page was both enemy and companion. Now, the machine fills it in seconds.
So what does that make me? Redundant? Or something else entirely?
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The AI Grandad 