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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 readingWhat a generative model makes is a replication of art rather than art, because it can only imitate or average the choices human makers have already made.

    Their wordsOne is to take an average of the choices that other writers have made, as represented by text found on the Internet; that average is equivalent to the least interesting choices possible, which is why A.I.-generated text is often really bland.

    ↗Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Artnewyorker.com 2nd of 11 in this piece

  3. Our readingA language model is not using language at all, because language requires an intention to communicate.

    Their wordsBut a large language model is not a writer; it’s not even a user of language. Language is, by definition, a system of communication, and it requires an intention to communicate.

    ↗Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Artnewyorker.com 8th of 11 in this piece