The Dawn of Mediocre Computing

The paradox of the AI era is this: as today’s imperfect LLMs improve, requiring less and less from us, we will need to demand more from ourselves. We must always insist on situating GPT-4 and its successors as our collaborative partners, not our replacements. We must continue to figure out how to keep human creativity, human judgment, and human val

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t is by now a familiar, even banal reality that AIs can suss out the ineffable essence of collections of artwork. The Rembrandtiness of Rembrandt, the Mozartiness of Mozart: These are weak passwords that have been cracked. Given enough data from the output of certain classes of learnable systems, an AI can reliably model the internal generative mec

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