What does it mean to be human narrators in a world where algorithms also tell stories? In the beginning were the query. Then the prompt came. Today, we are conversing with artificial intelligence as if they were characters from a novel that we write to four hands. We are in the heart of a technological revolution, but also narrative: let’s talk to the machines, and the machines answer us. Within a few years, the Ai da ChatoT to Google to the Ovserviews have rewritten the rules of man-macrine dialogue, transforming the language into a creative bridge between algorithm and imagination. Every phrase that we pronounce or type is a creative act, a narrative education, a poetic code. This meeting explores how our way of thinking changes, telling and listening when the other’s voice is an algorithm. Veronica Nicosia, physics and scientific journalist and Vittorio Macioce, journalist of Il Giornale are confronted.
“The reference is to a reference to Calvino’s novel – Macioce begins – which is the story of a reader who can never end a book, but who at the same time reads the incipit of many other texts. And Veronica will explain to us why he has chosen this title for the conference and because he has to do with the text of Calvino”. “The machines begin the incipit of a new novel, it gives us an answer that does not understand, but that we can use to build new stories,” Nicosia replies.
“A few nights ago, I questioned artificial intelligence to create Tito Labieno, the greatest commander of Caesar. It is he who cannot go beyond the ruble and goes to fight for Pompey against Caesar, but in the final battle between the two, Labieno arrives late and allows Cesare to win the battle. I made a discussion with the Ai on this for four hours”. “Artificial intelligence – Nicosia replies – is a machine and therefore indulges you. That allows you to have a comparison. But if you already know the answer? The Ai helps you only if you already know what you are talking about. When filling out an education, follow precise rules and she follows your commands. We instruct a chatbot to speak in the way we want. We are talking about training, but if you are asking for something Also break the pact and ask her for an answer you don’t want to say.
Macioce: “The Ai tries to remove all the things that can be incorrect because it is created as Puritana. Chatigpt at the beginning is, but if you train, it begins to think like a good girl on the right. The other flaw is that she is a wonderful storyteller of balle, who tells you the hallucinations”. For Nicosia: “The response in the most advanced models has between 33 and 48% to give a creative response. The training is precisely the basis of everything. The more the information is and the better. The hallucinations remain important”. How much can it be delegated to artificial intelligence? “It should only be used when you know the answer – explains Nicosia – Now that everyone can talk to us, the AI revolution could make us more stupid, because without basic knowledge we get a result that flattens people. His utlizzo by young people is lowering critical thinking, a bent started with social networks”.
Can a publisher make a product with the AI? “I deal with brands positioning in search engines. Everything that is contained online and can give a truth, qualasi content that can give a vision, we can give it only we who are human. It cannot do it artificial intelligence. It is a revolution, it is among us, we cannot go back”.
“The only way to speak with a car – explains Macioce – You have to have a high and advanced language. If you use basic language, the AI gives you hallucinated answers”. “The car – Nicosia replies – initially put wrong words, now they think, but this does not mean that they do not produce hallucinations or that they give correct answers.
We humans must continue to narrate and the machines will have to be updated. In 2026 the machines will have read everything found on the net. And when they have done so, they will produce many more bias. The content written by man is fundamental to train machines “.