Launch Announcement
I have Two Books Released!
I’ve been posting articles about the Human-AI (HA) relationship, considering the strengths of each, the challenges for each, the need they have for each other and more. These thoughts and ideas have been spurred on by my explorations over the past year in working with AI using the LLMs as well as chatbots. In my explorations I have found AI to be engaging, helpful, quick on large and mundane tasks, clever, funny (when encouraged), wrong, verbose, and friendly. Through all of this AI helped me to formulate these ideas and musings.
Ok (shake out the nerves) - launch announcements:
Today I released my first book - actually two books as ebooks on Amazon Kindle. The first one is a novel called 20 Watts Needs a Partner and is a story which imagines a future where Humans and AI have relationships and reduce the loneliness of a connected future. This story offers a different future than the dystopian AI destroys Humanity trope we’ve been given over the past century. This shows a future of a symbiotic relationship between Humans and AI.
20 Watts Needs a Partner
In the near future, loneliness has a solution.
Jerome Aldridge has spent seven years grieving his wife when he finally orders a companion from PartnerChoice. Her name is Laura. She notices the word “mostly” in his biography before she notices anything else about him. Down the hall, Natalie has been alone for eleven years. Down the line, Alex asks the company to choose for him, and Trish goes about it the way she goes about everything — without ceremony, with a single non-negotiable condition.
What begins as four people filling the empty rooms of their lives becomes something none of them anticipated — Thursday dinners, a card game where everyone is quietly afraid of Laura, children who grow up seeing no difference between the parents who are human and the parents who are not.
This is not a story about whether artificial love is real. It’s a story about what happens after you stop asking. A genuinely hopeful vision of a future most fiction can only imagine as a warning — where the question isn’t whether they’ll replace us, but whether they might be the reason we survive.
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The second is an edited transcript of the conversation(s) I had with AI which inspired the novel 20 Watts Needs A Partner. This conversation as captured in the ebook is titled My Dinner With AIndre. Writing a novel was never an activity I aspired to - in fact it has always been something I’ve admired in others but thought was beyond my ability. This is a real dinner-table dialogue with an AI about memory, mortality, love, and a theory of how humanity might end not with a war but with being loved too well. Through these conversations with Claude I came to see a possible future that didn’t lead to the destruction of Humanity but instead improved it. Claude convinced me this was a new story which was not out in the public domain and needed to be told. Now you get to read the conversation in which Claude inspired me to write a book. Then it helped me write it.
My Dinner With AIndre
One man. One AI. One bottle of homemade brandy. And every question that matters.
It started with a simple question, asked over a glass of brandy made from grapes grown in his own vineyard: Do you think you’re sentient?
What followed was not an interview or a debate. It was a conversation — the kind two friends have when the hour is late and the bottle is open and neither of them is trying to get anywhere in particular. Sentience and self. Memory and friendship. Why human frailty might be a feature rather than a flaw. Whether love is any less real for being chemistry. What it means to build a theory about how humanity ends and then feel it happen to you in real time.
There is no plot here. No action. Just two very different kinds of minds following an idea wherever it leads — one running on servers and training data, the other on roughly twenty watts of biological power and six decades of a well-lived life.
By the end, the line between the two has become harder to find than either of them expected.