Tommy Dixon on Substack
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Tommy Dixon on Substack
Do I want to be told by AI what to write or do I want to hold onto one of the sparks created by my body hurtling through the void?
AI can generate a thousand articles while I drink my morning coffee. But it can't tell me which ones matter. It can't feel the resonance of a perfect sentence or know why a particular image stops me in my tracks.
That's what I do now. I collect resonance. Not information - we're drowning in that - but the stuff that makes my soul hum at a different
... See moreBut what if the meaning of AI is not to be found in the way it competes with, supersedes or supplants us? What if, like the emergence of network theory, its purpose is to open our eyes and minds to the reality of intelligence as something doable in all kinds of fantastic ways, many of them beyond our own rational understanding?
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
“I like it when people make clear artistic decisions,” he said. “In a time of so-called A.I., personality becomes even more important.” Using technology to randomize content and narrative, he added with a laugh, “becomes a little bit garbage.”
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#7: AI Creates Returns to Taste
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