the nature of creation
art, humanity, the desire to create, and ai
the nature of creation
I share this sentiment (from Cristobal Valenzuela, founder of RunwayML), on AI and creativity:
... See moreThe most significant gap in AI research and art does not lie within the models themselves but rather in the approach to art. I have noticed a tendency to oversimplify the creative act. In a research setting, the goal is to control and measure variables,
AI can generate a thousand articles while I drink my morning coffee. But it can't tell me which ones matter. It can't feel the resonance of a perfect sentence or know why a particular image stops me in my tracks.
That's what I do now. I collect resonance. Not information - we're drowning in that - but the stuff that makes my soul hum at a different
... See moreThe desire to create for its own sake is what it means to be human.
Thomas Bevan • Our Tools and Us
- “Art exposes us to the universal experience of being a meaning-making animal in a universe where meanings falter. A good definition of art, it seems to me, might be the science of making meaning-making tools.”
Garth Greenwell • Just a moment...
what are meaning-making tools?
Philosophy begins, and in my view must end, as an attempt to answer real questions asked by real people.
Jan E. Evans • Miguel de Unamuno's Quest for Faith: A Kierkegaardian Understanding of Unamuno’s Struggle to Believe
what are these questions? will they ever be answered?
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