Artificial Intelligence Redemption?

[The AI Contest, as described in last Friday's post, is active until next Friday, the 8th. Essentially the idea is to create a video featuring a trick inspired by the AI posts from last week. See the details in that post. First (and only) prize is valued at $460.]

You know, I think maybe I was unfair to the AI process last week. I used a fairly nonsensical opening paragraph and maybe that’s why the articles turned out so poorly. Garbage in, garbage out, right? I've decided to give it at least one more shot. But this time I will write an opening paragraph that sets the AI up for success! If the AI blows it this time, then we'll know it's truly useless.

Here is the information I'm going to feed the AI for the article:

Title: Performing Magic for Fun, Profit, Love and Life Fulfillment

Opening Paragraph: Magic is the most powerful form of art to have ever existed. There are so many ways to have fun, make money, and garner the love of others with incredible magic tricks. In this article I will be explaining those ways in a succinct, coherent, step-by-step manner. What follows are some very amazing tricks, and some performance philosophy that will allow you to entertain anyone anywhere. To be clear, what you are about to read are really good magic tricks and the way you can use those tricks to entertain others to the highest degree while improving every aspect of your life.

Okay, there we go. Let's be honest... I've laid the groundwork for the greatest magic article of all time. C'mon, computers... don't let me down!

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Performing Magic for Fun, Profit, Love and Life Fulfillment

Magic is the most powerful form of art to have ever existed. There are so many ways to have fun, make money, and garner the love of others with incredible magic tricks. In this article I will be explaining those ways in a succinct, coherent, step-by-step manner. What follows are some very amazing tricks, and some performance philosophy that will allow you to entertain anyone anywhere. To be clear, what you are about to read are really good magic tricks and the way you can use those tricks to entertain others to the highest degree while improving every aspect of your life.

The Basics

(Magician) Steve Bailey gives a magic demonstration. Steve’s brother, Sid, gives a demonstration as well. There are three “points” or “things” to remember when performing any magic trick: 1. Everything you say will be recorded 2. Everything you do and say will be recorded 3. All you can do is prepare what you say or do (the trick), and execute it. What is your intention for performing the trick? What is your “magic number”? How do you aim to present yourself to the audience? Everything in the illusion is only a tool or a tool in the effect. In other words, it is all stagecraft. An illusion should not look like a trick. It should not look like a trick or be a trick. Illusion has no boundaries. Essentially, an illusion is an extension of ourselves; it is an extension of our minds.

Tips for Performance

Feel confident about performing the tricks that you learn. Take into consideration the psychological, physical, and cognitive elements of magic, and utilize those elements while performing magic. Being the best magician is about knowing what you are going to do and doing it very well. Presenting is a necessary skill, but you need to understand why you are presenting in the first place. When performing magic you are the brains and the voice of the operation, but sometimes you need to use your hands and physical actions in order to drive the point home. A great trick for businesspeople is demonstrated by Dean Reece. In the magic trick you are not buying a purse, but you are using a mental model to form an attachment to the way you see the world.

How to Perform Magic for Fun

All the performers in the history of the world who perform magic for fun are super successful at it. It’s much easier to perform magic for fun than for profit or love, and it is the most rewarding form of magic. The best thing about performing magic for fun is you’re forced to do your best, because you’re not making any money. Most people do not perform for fun; they perform to make money, because they don’t know what fun is. Here are some of the most rewarding things that can come from performing magic for fun: People get an immediate smile and laugh when they see you perform magic, which is much more frequent than seeing them getting the same laugh when they see you make money at it.

The Importance of Practice

As a performer of any art, practicing and perfecting your craft is essential. The best performers in the world go through years and years of painstaking practice, and they learn to really know their craft. It is an intangible thing, but if you spend the time and effort to perfect the art of magic, then magic is going to show up and show out. What do I mean by that? The best way to figure out what will work for you is to take the ideas of other masters and add your own twists. Be an original genius, not an imitator. As I have written before, imitating is not your friend, it is a form of laziness. Practice routines that you can learn in minutes and perform every day. Forget about doing the Houdini escape, and practice doing the Hippocratic trap, instead.

How to Perform Magic for Profit

By working magic in this manner you are working magic for a profit. Using tricks, and performing shows, you will amass a following which allows you to profit from your ability to inspire people. If you are good at this, it can increase your income tenfold. Of course, the money you make from shows will always be a secondary goal. With money you can accomplish things with no stress, or even in silence. Don't worry about having to get out and go to work and explain the reason for your presence to others, let your magic do that work. Yes, magic as a business is more than just spending money you earn to entertain people; it also requires hustle. Magic is a very competitive art, with plenty of competition from other magicians. What is your style? What do you think of your competition?

How to Perform Magic For Love

You are going to learn how to perform this extraordinary illusion and reveal the heart of a woman’s true self. There are three ways to find love: 1) Love someone enough to be good to them. 2) Buy yourself into someone’s life. 3) Unwittingly enchant a woman you will become husband and wife with. “You will be poor and have nothing, and you will be rich and have everything.” – Jewish Proverb You will want to perform this illusion often in private to your significant other, and gradually this will lead to an intimate feeling for each other. The Magic Will Make You Smarter You will learn a magic trick which will make you smarter. You will learn a magic trick which will allow you to become a more gifted leader. You will learn a magic trick which will make you the center of attention.

How to Perform Magic To Fulfill Your Life's Purpose

One of the problems with most magicians today is that they are primarily performing for others, instead of performing for themselves. This means they are only thinking about themselves and their desires. When this happens, they are not performing magic for themselves, but instead, they are performing for others and for their wants, needs, and fantasies. How can you perform magic that will result in satisfying your own life's purpose and ambitions? Well, you can perform magic by setting yourself free. What is freedom? It is when you are not constrained by the rules of society, the thoughts of other people, and the actions of the self. No one can decide the path that you are going to take in life. The moment you accept that you cannot control the outcome of your life, you become free.

Conclusion

Let's cut right to the chase, here's my favorite kind of magic trick that doesn't use any fire, smoke, mirrors, or illusions. It's a full on, no holds barred, balls to the wall, no gimmicks, no gimmicks, no gimmicks magic show. The first time I saw this, I knew I had to learn to do this for myself. I went out and bought myself a clean printer, so I could print all the cardstock I had purchased. Then I went out and bought the cheapest Casio keyboard I could find that I could still afford. Then I wrote out the entire instructions and put them in order on the cards and laid them on top of the keyboard. Then I proceeded to completely learn how to play this trick in a week and completely memorize all the notes. The trick is just incredibly well done and amazing.

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Okay, fuck me. This shit is garbage. But I have to admit I enjoy when things start going off the rails. It’s kind of fascinating. And the fact that it made up its own “jewish proverb” is kind of great.

I’ll admit, with the more “normal” opening paragraph we did actually get a couple sentences here and there that legitimately sound like some standard magic writing. If I told you this quote—“Essentially, an illusion is an extension of ourselves; it is an extension of our minds.”—came from Joshua Jay’s new book, you’d probably believe me. Shit. I guess now I have to buy that book so I can write a post where you have to guess if a statement comes from Josh’s book or the blathering AI program.

I don’t know shit about AI, but from playing around with this content creating tool over the past week or so, here’s my impression of it… When it comes to artificial intelligence created writing, you’re going to get something that’s boring and uninspiring enough to pass for normal boring and uninspiring human writing, or you’re going to get some bonkers bullshit. Occasionally the crazy shit will read like an inspired creative idea, but I doubt it really ever is. It’s more likely to be a matter of us using our human minds to make sense out of gibberish. The way we make pictures out of the random distribution of stars in the sky. So if you’re in the creative field I don’t think you have to worry about AI taking your job anytime soon. They haven’t quite cracked the code on that yet.

I think this will be the final post solely devoted to AI. I still have a bunch of credits at the Writesonic site to generate more content, and I will use them. But those will probably be included in the Friday "Dustings" posts in the coming weeks. Don't worry, the site will soon return from this general Artificial-Intelligence-generated nonsense to the very specific Human-Stupidity-generated nonsense I've been known for over these past years.