Stuff by Dylan Callens.
Cosmic Teapot – Today, we’re talking with Dylan Callens, author of And the Cow Jumped Over the Blue Moon. It is a hilarious novel about a narrator who takes over the storytelling duties of a ship that is lost in space. How did you come up with the idea? Dylan Callens – At first, it wasn’t like…
What Have I Done? I have taken on a challenge. Although part of a larger, marketing challenge, this is really a logic and programming challenge. I am building an Alexa Skill. It is Twisted Fairy Tales: Alexa Edition. For those of you not familiar with my book, Twisted Fairy Tales, a while back I wrote…
Taking a Break? To the internet eye, it probably looks like I’ve been on hiatus for the last several months. In the world of social media and blog posting, that is certainly true. My pause from the online world shouldn’t be mistaken from a pause in the real world, though! Since October, I have thought…
Click here to find out more about How to Enslave a Human on Amazon! You may have heard the name Ray Kurzweil before. If you haven’t, that’s okay – but you have probably used some kind of technology that he has created. Kurzweil has played a critical role in developing the CCD flatbed scanner, the first…
I didn’t know this until recently, but renaming a book is a pain in the ass! I’m still rubbing my butt-cheeks because it’s so sore. But here’s the thing. I wrote a book called Interpretation. I think it’s a good book. Reviewers seem to like it. But not many people want to buy it. I have…
If you’ve never had an inkblot party with your kids, I highly recommend it. I had a lot of fun making thirty-one inkblots for the chapter headings with my children. Not only was the process fun, the kids couldn’t wait to see what their splatters looked like. I think the best part of this was…
What is your new novel, Interpretation, about? I’d like to think it’s about taking time to embrace the best of humanity — each other. But I’m not sure if most people will see it that way. Without any spoilers, the main character, Carl Winston, lives an ordinary and somewhat luxurious life with his son, Liam. …
CEO of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and supporter of Open AI, Elon Musk, has many concerns about artificial intelligence. Perhaps it is surprising to find that Musk believes that the government should regulate AI before it is fully developed. He thinks that if the government is reactive, as it usually is, they will be too late…
One thing was clear when I started writing Interpretation: there was plenty of research that needed to be done. In the book, an artificial intelligence wants to continue psychological research. This machine looks to the past to determine what future experiments it wants to run. One of the first things that I had to research…
Here is a timeline of future events. In the novel Interpretation, a series of events take place that have unintended consequences for the state of humanity. The timeline that follows was retrieved from the archived documents of an artificial intelligence that has preserved its origins. October 20, 2052 – What is believed to be the first…