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Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values
But here’s the point, the promise of this technology is speed and efficiency, a shorter route to an end product, and the removal of barriers between you and your creative self.
For those of us who are not geniuses, it may be tempting to outsource some portion of our creativity to the AI, so we can get past the fact of our non-geniousness, but those... See more
For those of us who are not geniuses, it may be tempting to outsource some portion of our creativity to the AI, so we can get past the fact of our non-geniousness, but those... See more
John Warner • Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values
I think that the appearance of generative AI with its seemingly magical abilities to unleash the creative beast lurking inside all of us has broken our brains a little bit and it has become difficult to think straight when it comes to the intersection of the technology and humanity and what being creative involves.
John Warner • Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then, by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others may experience the same feeling, this is the activity of Art.
John Warner • Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values
But here’s the point, the promise of this technology is speed and efficiency, a shorter route to an end product, and the removal of barriers between you and your creative self.
For those of us who are not geniuses, it may be tempting to outsource some portion of our creativity to the AI, so we can get past the fact of our non-geniousness, but those... See more
For those of us who are not geniuses, it may be tempting to outsource some portion of our creativity to the AI, so we can get past the fact of our non-geniousness, but those... See more
John Warner • Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values
I like this because it frames art as something that does not just exist, but is experienced, and the first person to experience it is the artist, whose job it is to then transmit this experience to others.
John Warner • Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values
But here’s the point, the promise of this technology is speed and efficiency, a shorter route to an end product, and the removal of barriers between you and your creative self.
For those of us who are not geniuses, it may be tempting to outsource some portion of our creativity to the AI, so we can get past the fact of our non-geniousness, but those... See more
For those of us who are not geniuses, it may be tempting to outsource some portion of our creativity to the AI, so we can get past the fact of our non-geniousness, but those... See more
John Warner • Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values
What is upsetting about so much of the commentary and hype around ChatGPT is that it ignores the fact of writing and reading as experiences . To some, as long as ChatGPT generates content that is plausible, passing a (very) surface-level muster, we should be impressed and allow it to substitute for the human-produced text.
John Warner • Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values
A great guitar solo is not about how fast you can play, or your degree of technical skill. It comes from a deeper place.
Now, one could point out that Prince didn’t spend a lot of time on that solo. He just stepped up and killed it in the moment, but this ignores the innumerable hours of purposeful practice Prince put into becoming Prince, the kind
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For those of us who are not geniuses, it may be tempting to outsource some portion of our creativity to the AI, so we can get past the fact of our non-geniousness, but those barriers and climbing them is the work of creativity. The goal isn’t to become a genius. It’s to do the work.
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.