The AI Quality Coup
I once sat in a room with a bunch of machine learning folks who were developing creative artificial intelligence to make “good art.” I asked one researcher about the training data. How did they choose to operationalize “good art”? Their reply: they used Netflix data about engagement hours.The problem is that engagement hours are not the same as goo... See more
The tools will no doubt get better at pulling relevant quotes. But I’m less confident they’ll ever solve the perennial mysteries of taste and discernment. Many great artists have put out what they thought was their best work, only to see it flop. And vice versa—what they thought was average ended up going viral. Every time you release a work of art
... See moreBilly Oppenheimer • The Cup of Coffee Theory of AI
AI is powerful but taste-blind. It can make anything but it has no idea what's actually worth making.
Sari Azout • What Matters in the Age of AI Is Taste
In an era of Netflix glut and endless Marvel spinoffs, there’s the question of how much quality still matters to studio heads or the viewing public