Considering human imagination the last piece of wilderness, do you think AI will ever be able to write a good song? - The Red Hand Files
by Nick Cave
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Considering human imagination the last piece of wilderness, do you think AI will ever be able to write a good song? - The Red Hand Files
This is what we humble humans can offer, that AI can only mimic, the transcendent journey of the artist that forever grapples with his or her own shortcomings. This is where human genius resides, deeply embedded within, yet reaching beyond, those limitations.
from Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #218 - I asked Chat GPT to write a song in the style of Nick Cave and this is what it... by Nick Cave
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Where and how will humans show the eminence of our species when AI becomes better than us at everything? I feel sort of desperate for some human-centric optimism here because the whole project of being human feels really weird as our specialness becomes automated.
A couple of observations. First, I do think the last mile is the most difficu
... See morefrom Ben’s Perspective Part 2: A Few Thoughts About Chatgpt With Ben Horowitz by Ben Horowitz
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You could see AI making an exact replica of The Room and it having none of the value, because it wasn't made by someone. Because there was no human-led deviation between what was attempted and what was made. That deviation, in art and in life, is what makes us so damn human.
from Will AI Replace the Artist? by Alex Dobrenko`
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I actually think this is pro-AI, in that it ringfences it. AI can make fun sounds, but it can’t create real stories.
- Use the tools if you must. But a better use of your extra energy — such as it is — is to live the gap between human and AI. Can an AI gather, synthesize, calculate, and even speculate faster than we can? Yes. Can it do all those things better than we can? Maybe. Can it be more interesting, unexpected, artful, or meaningful? Well that’s just a matte... See more
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- There’s a lot of speculation and rhetoric these days about whether AI democratizes creativity or advances it. However, it is abundantly clear to me that both are true.
On the one hand, humanity’s creative confidence for humanity has gone up as people of all ages are able to prompt whatever is in their mind’s eye and express themselves visually. We’... See morefrom The Era of Abstraction & New Creative Tensions by Scott Belsky
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- For the foreseeable future, the ongoing technological explosion will be driven by humans using previously invented tools to invent new ones; there won’t be a “last invention that man need ever make.” In one respect, this is reassuring, because, contrary to Good’s claim, human intelligence will never be “left far behind.” But, in the same way that w... See more
from Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter by newyorker.com
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