AI & Creativity
While LLMs continue to devour web-scraped data, they’ll increasingly consume their own digital progeny as AI-generated content continues to flood the internet. This recursive loop, experimentally confirmed, erodes the true data landscape. Rare events vanish first. Models churn out likely sequences from the original pool while injecting their own un... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🔮 Open-source AI surge; UBI surprises; AI eats itself; Murdoch’s empire drama & the internet’s Balkanisation ++ #484
Exploratory and transformational creativity, on the other hand, often require deep familiarity with a conceptual space. Here, LLMs save time by acting as intelligent research assistants. Tools like OpenAI’s deep research can help you get a clearer sense of the landscape you’re working within, as well as a stronger foundation from which to push its ... See more
Rhea Purohit • A Science-based Guide to Thinking Creatively—With LLMs
While human experts may excel in specific domains, "no single human — no matter how intelligent — possesses a comparable breadth of skills" to AI. This highlights AI's advantage in covering a wide range of tasks.
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The human brain, with its "86 billion neurons, all processing in parallel," is presented as a prime example of natural computing. This complex system demonstrates the power and sophistication of computation in nature.
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The programmer Simon Willison has described the training for large language models as “money laundering for copyrighted data,” which I find a useful way to think about the appeal of generative-A.I. programs: they let you engage in something like plagiarism, but there’s no guilt associated with it because it’s not clear even to you that you’re copyi... See more
Artists are not simply replacing their skills with AI, but rather integrating AI-generated content with their existing artistic practices. Allen generates images with DALL-E, projects them onto objects, and then outlines and develops his pieces, adding his own style.
The real threat to human creativity comes from the instrumental nature of AI as a means of production, which can replace human creatives in fields such as web design, copywriting, and advertising, where the primary purpose is to direct attention to a product or service, rather than to create something for its own sake.
The root of invention and innovation is creativity. Organizations that understand the relationship between creativity, innovation and performance, and provide creativity skills training for their employees, win in the marketplace.