Saved by Keely Adler
The Magic in the Machine
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
This is the full realization of Turing’s oracle machine, that mysteriously powerful device which, whatever it is, ‘cannot be a machine’. Once again, we come to the only conclusion available: the oracle is the world.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.