AI/ One More Small Step Not Just a Science Fiction by AI

Can science fiction be written by or with generative artificial intelligence? Science fiction was deliberately chosen as the genre rather than crime fiction, romance, or others. Science fiction can deviate from descriptions of the real world in its portrayals, meaning AI cannot fail at describing reality. The race to the Moon was chosen as the theme. Abundant information is available on this topic that the AI was trained on, giving it the relevant background knowledge. In practice, the project resulted in 31/2 stories. The grandiose and widely held views of ingenious AI were put to the test. The paper explains working with AI and its specific characteristics. The linguistic style of AI responses is noteworthy. An emotional and seemingly understanding mode of expression suggests an intelligence that is not actually present. Current generative AI is a text generator based on probabilistic connections between words and word groups. The results are data constructs from word clouds that the user interprets. The meaning that the user perceives is not inherently contained in the AI's text output. Software companies have designed AI outputs to make humans suspect intelligence behind them.