Duncan Keegan
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And then for some people, there's an experience of parenthood where it is final moments and moments that you wish you didn't have to remember.
And also moments that actually you don't even remember.
I was talking with Sarah about something to do with the talk today.
And I just, I wanted to ask her about it because I have my very indistinct memory.
It's almost not a clear memory, but it is a moment.
It is a moment.
And she just said, I don't remember that.
I don't remember that day very well.
I don't remember it.
But she started crying and I started crying.
I have these experience with Sarah and with our grief and with losing Rory and with loving Eve, our daughter.
And it makes me very skeptical of a lot of the inflated claims about what AI can or might be able to do.
And I think of it very much in terms of like poetry, what human beings can do with poetry.
I think it was Michael Longley.
Poetry is an event, not a construction.
You unfold it on the page, but the poem is an event, something that happens.
And there is a moment where a poem reveals itself and is full of delight to you.
And I feel like those moments that you have with a person, with another person,
are the words can drift in that are just right for that moment that they are not, those words do not truly describe what it is the moment you are having.
And we can, with the technology we have, we can do beautiful things like we can have a conversation over preparing dinner