At a recent party I witnessed annoying behavior from a friend of mine and afterwards wrote a short story where he was a boastful bird (won't be published, plus it is in Finnish). When I wrote the scene, I noticed the experience lit a spark that helped produced something interesting (not necessarily very original) which in turn helped me process some of that irritation, and forced me to think why my friend's words irked me the way they...hmm... irked.
Unless someday AI will be able to learn emotions the way I have learn... I mean that I possess, it will never be able to produce anything truly unique. It can mimic the expression of HOO-MAN feelings for sure, but I remain skeptical about its ability to condense the whirlpool of emotions into something special - to understand where the flubber that makes us human comes from. I'm confident we will always be drawn to the nuances, whether we're talking films or other arts.
Quick sidetrack: The Korean movie "Decision to Leave" amazingly portrays the intricacies of the HOO-MAN experience without over-explaining what's going on inside the characters' heads.
I don't know what I'm trying to say here. AI's don't go to parties? Your essay made me blurt out all of this so I guess it is the testament to the necessity of human involvement?
I might take it a step further and say AI (Midjourney, ChatGPT, all of it) is the logical end to what so many of us have been revolting against for a few years now; namely, generic "content" that's a mile wide, an inch deep, and reads like cardboard. There's no "there" there.
That might be cool for a content mill pumping out amenity descriptions for Best Westerns along the interstate, but for actual writing? No way. ChatGpt's best seen as something of a research intern- and one you still have to keep an eye on.
Mar 19, 2023·edited Mar 19, 2023Liked by Andrew Paul Koole
The only solace I take from the AI apocalypse is that it's almost certainly never going to deliver on its (awful) promise. Though, if it does, I can't see how the future is anything but dystopian.
Beautiful performance by De La and The Roots. I've been rocking De La non-stop for weeks now. What a legacy they leave.
This is the paragraph that sings to me: "There will always be a norm. And a minority will always be there, pushing against that norm. These forces don’t follow each other. They exist simultaneously, often within each of us."
At a recent party I witnessed annoying behavior from a friend of mine and afterwards wrote a short story where he was a boastful bird (won't be published, plus it is in Finnish). When I wrote the scene, I noticed the experience lit a spark that helped produced something interesting (not necessarily very original) which in turn helped me process some of that irritation, and forced me to think why my friend's words irked me the way they...hmm... irked.
Unless someday AI will be able to learn emotions the way I have learn... I mean that I possess, it will never be able to produce anything truly unique. It can mimic the expression of HOO-MAN feelings for sure, but I remain skeptical about its ability to condense the whirlpool of emotions into something special - to understand where the flubber that makes us human comes from. I'm confident we will always be drawn to the nuances, whether we're talking films or other arts.
Quick sidetrack: The Korean movie "Decision to Leave" amazingly portrays the intricacies of the HOO-MAN experience without over-explaining what's going on inside the characters' heads.
I don't know what I'm trying to say here. AI's don't go to parties? Your essay made me blurt out all of this so I guess it is the testament to the necessity of human involvement?
AI ain't never gonna come up with anything that GOOD!
I might take it a step further and say AI (Midjourney, ChatGPT, all of it) is the logical end to what so many of us have been revolting against for a few years now; namely, generic "content" that's a mile wide, an inch deep, and reads like cardboard. There's no "there" there.
That might be cool for a content mill pumping out amenity descriptions for Best Westerns along the interstate, but for actual writing? No way. ChatGpt's best seen as something of a research intern- and one you still have to keep an eye on.
The only solace I take from the AI apocalypse is that it's almost certainly never going to deliver on its (awful) promise. Though, if it does, I can't see how the future is anything but dystopian.
Beautiful performance by De La and The Roots. I've been rocking De La non-stop for weeks now. What a legacy they leave.
This is the paragraph that sings to me: "There will always be a norm. And a minority will always be there, pushing against that norm. These forces don’t follow each other. They exist simultaneously, often within each of us."