The power of AI is its ability to turn unstructured data into structured data
Matt Hartmanmatthewhartman.substack.com
The power of AI is its ability to turn unstructured data into structured data
An Interview With Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman about the Democratization of AI
Daniel Grossstratechery.com
The fight between creators and AI companies is fierce. The current paradigm in AI is to build bigger and bigger models, and there is, at least currently, no getting around the fact that they require vast data sets hoovered from the internet to train on.
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.
Alex Dobrenko` • Will AI Replace the Artist?
language models are not intelligent in the ways that even small children are intelligent, but they are already superhuman at tasks like summarization, translation (both linguistic and conceptual), and association. And when you apply those skills to artfully curated source material written by equally, but differently, gifted humans, magic can happen... See more
Steven Johnson • Revenge of the Humanities
Fifth, the heavy dependence of contemporary AI on training sets can also lead to a pernicious echo-chamber effect, in which a system ends up being trained on data that it generated itself earlier.
Ernest Davis • Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
Indeed, the fact that AI, which is trained to detect and replicate underlying patterns in our writing, can produce such coherent prose is a testament to just how much we rely on convention, both at the sentence and structural level.