Issue #45: Are you the head chef or the dishwasher in the AI kitchen?

creativity is combinatorial, that nothing is entirely original, that everything builds on what came before, and that we create by taking existing pieces of inspiration, knowledge, skill and insight that we gather over the course of our lives and recombining them into incredible new creations.

If you think about it, AI has digested the entirety of human knowledge but lacks the lived experience to make it meaningful. It's like a tourist who's read every guidebook but never actually visited the country. Technically informed but missing the scents, the sounds, the subtle social cues that bring true understanding. It can mimic but not origi

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The more and better access everyone has to tools, the clearer it becomes that the bottleneck to great work is not knowledge, it's not information, it's not even intelligence. It's that intangible quality, call it taste, creativity, judgment, courage, intuition, agency. We've all heard the quote from Thomas Edison where he says, "Genius is 1% inspir... See more