ideas vs execution 4
- Thinking inspiration outweighs execution is a sign of not knowing the medium.
- The very thing that sells generative AI — that it returns far more than you put in — is what stops it from being a tool artists can use.
Ted Chiang
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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AI and human skill 3
- Generative AI is dehumanising because it reduces the amount of intention in the world.
- Generative AI's main achievement so far has been to lower what we expect of what we read and of ourselves when we write.
AI writing 2
- What 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.
- Generative AI's main achievement so far has been to lower what we expect of what we read and of ourselves when we write.
LLMs 2
- What 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.
- A language model is not using language at all, because language requires an intention to communicate.