Sophie S. on Substack
Japanese martial arts traditions call these three stages of learning shu-ha-ri: first following rules faithfully (shu), then breaking from tradition (ha), and finally transcending formal structure altogether (ri). What makes this framework so revelatory for any AI doomsday discussion is how it illuminates the evolving relationship between
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If nothing else, AI has prompted introspection on creative methodologies, a reappraisal of our relationship to technology. We must question. What is it that we do that a machine will never be able to? What is an essentially “human” typographic experience? Can AI be fully commanded, and interrogated, or will technology sanitize our vision and
... See more“Everyone’s focused on capabilities – typography, grids, colour theory – but those are the first things AI can replicate,” he says. “Then we pivot to taste, but taste alone isn’t resilient either. You can train a model on what’s tasteful.”
Real differentiation, Forest argues, comes from “taste- making ”, the ability to not only recognise trends, but... See more
Real differentiation, Forest argues, comes from “taste- making ”, the ability to not only recognise trends, but... See more