Series: Buying Cheap Property in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan — Article 9 of 30 When I tell people what I pay in annual property tax on my house in Otaru, they assume I’m leaving something out. There must be a homeowner’s association fee, or a special assessment, or some other line item I’m forgetting. There isn’t. …
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Current LLMs can generate novel-length text. Whether the result is worth reading depends on human creative direction. Here’s what the technology can and can’t do.
Series: Buying Cheap Property in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan — Article 8 of 30 The listing price is not the price. I knew this going in — I’ve bought property before, in other countries, and there’s always a spread between the number on the listing and the number you actually spend. But Japan’s version of this …
More than you’d think, fewer than the hype suggests. Disclosed collaborations, undisclosed assistance, and pure AI output — here’s the landscape.
Series: Buying Cheap Property in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan — Article 7 of 30 The short answer is almost certainly not. I know that’s not what you want to hear. You’ve been reading about akiya selling for the price of a used Honda Civic, and you’re thinking there must be some way to finance this with …
Yes. From 1980s procedural text to modern Transformer-based collaborations, AI has produced novel-length works. The real question is what ‘written’ means.