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
AI is creating its content by pulling other people’s content from across the internet. It’s not taking into consideration what’s new, what’s dated, what’s thoughtful, what’s creative, what’s redundant.
Carolyn Freyer-Jones • The Total Coaching Success Book: Everything You Need Internally and Externally to Create a Financially Successful Coaching Business
the worst of all possible worlds: generative AI manages to pollute the internet with cheap synthetic data, manages to make being a human artist / creator harder
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.
John Warner • Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values
When it comes to AI, we need to aim higher than the question: “What if you could press a button to generate an essay?” AI can produce infinite amounts of content; quantity is its game. Quality, intention, taste, originality, vision—that’s where we come in.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
Maybe that’s my problem with AI-generated prose: it doesn’t mean anything because it didn’t cost the computer anything. When a human produces words, it signifies something. When a computer produces words, it only signifies the content of its training corpus and the tuning of its parameters. It has no context—or, really, it has infinite context, bec
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