me myself and AI - the writing dilemma
why does it feel wrong to write with AI
me myself and AI - the writing dilemma
This is one of the many reasons why I find the current conversation about so-called generative AI so immensely frustrating: there’s all this hype about making everything easier and faster, about how we can eliminate all the work involved in the making of words and images. But no one arguing for this seems to have asked what’s left when the work is ... See more
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
THIS PART: I fear that nothing changes, that nothing is changed in such a making, least of all ourselves. But then, what does it mean to be unchanged, for your feet to pass so lightly over the ground they don’t so much as disturb the sand? Even the dead make change in the world, as their bodies decay and and are transformed into food for beasts and bugs and trees. But in eliminating the effort, in refusing the temporality of making, the outcome of an “AI”-driven creative process is a phantasm, an unsubstantiality, something that passes through the world without leaving any trace. A root that twists back upon itself and tries to suck the water from its own desiccated veins.
Banning billionaires would thus be an indirect fix — the more enduring solution lies in reformulating how digital networks are shaping society.
Jaron Lanier • The dangerous fantasies driving the quest for super-intelligent AI
This phenomenal article in The Verge follows the inner conflict of a writer who started using Sudowrite to help pump out several of her self-published fantasy novels per year: “ It’s just words , she thought. It’s my story, my characters, my world. I came up with it. So what if a computer wrote them?”
rayne fisher-quann • Choosing to walk
Becker is a fine chronicler and a valuable historian. He traces the roots of transhumanism — a movement advocating the use of technology to enhance human capabilities and surpass biological limits — to Christian theology. The possibility of human–machine hybrids has enabled outspoken atheists to imagine their own version of immortality, involving “... See more
The dangerous fantasies driving the quest for super-intelligent AI
Venkatesh Rao on Substack
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When I contemplate these questions, I encounter a paradox. I acknowledge that my inability to marvel at a live Caruso opera in Naples has cost me something deep and beautiful. But I cannot wish that the phonograph was never invented. Does the increased variety and quantity of music compensate for the decreased profundity of each musical experience?... See more
“A thousand moderately pleasant one-night stands cannot equal one passionate love affair”
Hunter S. Thompson A.I. @hunterstho89391
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like for example this account
it sorta sucks
In the famous Turing test, a human judge determines whether a machine and a person can be told apart on the basis of how they communicate. If the machine can fool the judge, then human specialness can be dismissed.
Light bulbs have energy ratings — so why can’t AI chatbots?
The test is not treated seriously in rigorous philosophy circles, but remains... See more
Light bulbs have energy ratings — so why can’t AI chatbots?
The test is not treated seriously in rigorous philosophy circles, but remains... See more
Jaron Lanier • The dangerous fantasies driving the quest for super-intelligent AI
This AI boom has set off an existential crisis in me.
Some background: I’ve been teaching writing for the past six years. In that time, I developed frameworks for how to write well and a reputation as a good teacher to learn from. Partially because of the AI wave, I decided to stop teaching. It has only been four months since I shut down my busine... See more