Every - essay bits inspo
collecting fragments of inspo for the essay I’m working on with Every
full essay here: https://every.to/thesis/the-end-of-productivity
Every - essay bits inspo
collecting fragments of inspo for the essay I’m working on with Every
full essay here: https://every.to/thesis/the-end-of-productivity
Oliver Burkeman sums up my views on AI and creativity pretty well:
To start with, picture this scenario. You’re at home, feeling lonely and sorry for yourself, when the phone rings out of the blue. It’s an old friend, checking in on you. For an hour, you have one of those rare, wonderful, uplifting conversations; by the time you hang up, you’re
... See more“At the same time, art cannot be understood in terms of purpose. As the sculptor Charles Ray has said, art is “for absolutely nothing.” To make, or experience, art is to enter a kind of free zone; it slows us down, places us in some epistemological estuary, takes us into the wild. We make art from our flaws, fragilities, perversities, from our need
... See morelanguage matters. Describing generative models as "artificial intelligence" simultaneously creates unrealistic expectations _and_ undersells the technology's capabilities.