Brave New Bookshelf - Episode 2
[00:00:00] Welcome to Brave New Bookshelf, a podcast that explores the fascinating intersection of AI and authorship. Join hosts, Steph Pajonas and Danica Favorite, as they dive into thought provoking discussions, debunk myths, and highlight the transformative role of AI in the publishing industry.
**Steph Pajonas:** Okay. Hi, everybody. Welcome. So we're getting off into our episode number two of Brave New Bookshelf. I'm Steph Pajonas, space opera, romance, and cozy mystery author. I don't know. I do a lot of stuff now with my co host Danica.
**Danica Favorite:** Hi, I'm Danica Favorite. I am a romance author and also co host with Steph Pajonas, as well as the community manager at PublishDrive.
And I have to say this is the first time I've heard you describe what you write a space opera, so that's new and fun.
**Steph Pajonas:** I know, I usually say sci fi romance, but it's sci fi romance has become very like aliens and monsters, and I tend to write mostly humans in space, so I've been saying space opera romance.
**Danica Favorite:** [00:01:00] I love that. I love that change. I love it. I like that new distinction because you're right. It is one of those things that is changing.
**Steph Pajonas:** Yeah.
**Danica Favorite:** But, but I think that's everything in publishing, right? It is ever changing.
**Steph Pajonas:** It is ever changing.
**Danica Favorite:** Gotta keep up with the times.
**Steph Pajonas:** I agree. And I'm also one of the co founders of the Future Fiction Academy and we help authors use AI as part of their writing process and their business processes.
Today we're going to talk a little bit about some basics about AI. What authors can expect from AI. What it is. Where it came from, those sorts of things. It didn't just come out of the sky from aliens. And although that would have been really cool, but
**Danica Favorite:** I'm gonna say as a fan of ancient aliens and someone who has been secretly working on an ancient aliens book or an alien book, like the dude, it's the aliens.
So I will be happy to give aliens credit.
**Steph Pajonas:** I'm happy to give aliens credit. That's [00:02:00] so funny because I want to put each and aliens in my next serial. So maybe we'll have to hook up on that.
**Danica Favorite:** Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
See, we're here to talk about AI, but as always, Steph and I just are like,
**Steph Pajonas:** let's talk aliens instead.
No, no, no. We're actually going to talk about AI.
So what are some basics that we can talk about to get started with the authors with AI?
**Danica Favorite:** I think first of all, what we need to understand speaking of aliens, believe it or not. Everyone thinks AI artificial intelligence, I don't know. About you. I haven't seen the new ones, but growing up, I Watched the original Terminator stuff with my dad. That was our thing.
And for a long time, I think that's what we thought AI was where were these Terminator robots coming to get us. And I still think there's a little bit of that fear again, particularly for us who had that kind of stuff in our childhood. And we remember that. But I think we have to pare that down because AI as we [00:03:00] know it now is not that smart.
And it doesn't even work that way. And Steph, I love how you explain how AI works. So why don't you start about when we're talking about AI, what are we talking about? And how does it work?
**Steph Pajonas:** It's funny that you mentioned Terminator, because I actually think of AI as the computer on Star Trek.
