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Ted Chiang

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American science-fiction writer, author of the collections Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation, and an essayist on artificial intelligence for The New Yorker.

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  1. Our readingGenerative AI's main achievement so far has been to lower what we expect of what we read and of ourselves when we write.

    Their wordsThe task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read.

    ↗Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Artnewyorker.com 9th of 11 in this piece