machines won’t replace us
exploring this theme broadly. for now, collecting raw material.
machines won’t replace us
Right now, people totally misunderstand what AI is. They see it as a tiger. A tiger is dangerous. It might eat me. It’s an adversary. And there’s danger in water, too — you can drown in it — but the danger of a flowing river of water is very different to the danger of a tiger. Water is dangerous, yes, but you can also swim in it, you can make
... See moreThe Verge • “An engine for the imagination”: an interview with David Holz, CEO of AI image generator Midjourney
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.
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?
Nathan Baschezx.com100% the latter
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
... See moreWhen 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.
Billy Oppenheimer • The Cup of Coffee Theory of AI
None of this is to imply that human beings should repudiate the technologies that make us more efficient. We just have to recognize which needs greater quantity can meet, and which it cannot. For example, AI chatbots cannot meet the need for intimacy. LLMs cannot meet the need for creativity. AI-generated art cannot meet the need for aesthetic... See more
via Charles Eisenstein
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.
... See moreAmelia Wattenberger • Why Chatbots Are Not the Future of Interfaces
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.
scott belskyx.com