Single best description of AI I’ve ever read, from the great Ted Chiang. https://t.co/d2qK0nJpKh
Single best description of AI I’ve ever read, from the great Ted Chiang. https://t.co/d2qK0nJpKh
The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the wo... See more
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?
Jimmy Cerone added
I actually think this is pro-AI, in that it ringfences it. AI can make fun sounds, but it can’t create real stories.
Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.
Ted Chiang • Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art | the New Yorker
This is one of the many reasons why I find the current conversation about so-called generative AI so immensely frustrating: there’s all this hype about making everything easier and faster, about how we can eliminate all the work involved in the making of words and images. But no one arguing for this seems to have asked what’s left when the work is ... See more
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
sari and added
I think that the appearance of generative AI with its seemingly magical abilities to unleash the creative beast lurking inside all of us has broken our brains a little bit and it has become difficult to think straight when it comes to the intersection of the technology and humanity and what being creative involves.