machines won’t replace us
exploring this theme broadly. for now, collecting raw material.
by sari · updated 1mo ago
machines won’t replace us
- As Donald Knuth put it: “Ai has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires ‘thinking’ but has failed to do most of what people and animals do without thinking …”
What do we have left that is ours and ours alone? Sensorimotor skills that are all but automatic, yes. Consciousness, yes. Emotions. Instinct. Appetites, impulses and dr... See moresari added 1mo ago
- Art is defined by intentionality, and we ought to view “AI art” as an interaction between humans and machines versus ascribing to a computer agency that does not exist.
sari added 1mo ago
- I think we’ll realize that the early text-to-image “prompt-based” era of GenAI undermined creativity while the “controls” era unleashed human creativity in unimaginable ways. the tools evolve, but creative vision, precision, taste, and skills will be more vital than ever before.
sari added 2mo ago
LLMs and all such products tend to converge: on styles, on forms, on patterns; the “sameness” isn’t incidental, it’s actually core to what these technologies do, how they work; they will always have this quality; this quality is their modus operandi, really! There is no world in which LLMs write interesting things.
Humans care about what other human
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People keep asking me about AI and I really think how you feel about AI comes down to whether you believe art is about producing things (images, objects, data files, “content”) or about a way of operating in the world as an intellectual, spiritual, and emotional creature.
from AI can’t kill anything worth preserving - Austin Kleon by Austin Kleon
sari added 7mo ago
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- AI generated content will answer a question until now was impossible to answer: How much of our enjoyment of art is about the art itself, and how much is it about a connection to the artist?
sari added 7mo ago
100% the latter
When you don’t experience reality like most people do, it’s hard to make things that connect with most people.
AI, completely detached from reality, will have a hard time making things that connect with people.
from The Cup of Coffee Theory of AI by Billy Oppenheimer
sari added 7mo ago
I want to see more tools and fewer operated machines - we should be embracing our humanity instead of blindly improving efficiency. And that involves using our new AI technology in more deft ways than generating more content for humans to evaluate. I believe the real game changers are going to have very little to do with plain content generation. L
... See morefrom Why Chatbots Are Not the Future of Interfaces by Amelia Wattenberger
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