(Artificial) Creativity
AI must die? ā§ AI is not a super genius ā§ AI to resist industrial urges
šĀ On time for your weekend: a round-up ofĀ this and last weekās remarkable storiesĀ at the intersection of technology, business, design, and culture. Three reads and three listens; no fluff, just stuff ā”
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happeningāMarshall McLuhan
š Reading
GPT-4o Must Die?
The reason you care is because you have to care. And as soon as you have to care for an agent, the paradigm by which you interact and engage with these systems changes completely [ā¦] We may very well run into situations where users become emotionally involved with their AI agents very quickly [ā¦] We need to be prepared to think about companies turning of their AIās or people becoming attached to them as potentially a society-wide issue.
Jay Springett | 14 minutes
There Are Things That Machines Canāt Do (And Never Will)
Once we stop imagining AI to be a super genius in a box and begin to see it as a machine for curating infinite monkeys, something much more valuable begins to emergeāa tool to create dialogues for ourselves. Large language models, by definition, hold a multitude of perspectives. So rather than replacing us, we can use them as soundings board to help us create for ourselves.
Greg SatellāDigital Tonto | 6 minutes
Artificial Creativity:
AI can still be a creative partner rather than an extension of the same industry thatās been squashing creativity all along. We can use it to help us distinguish between our own artistic innovation and our unconscious reversion to the mean - our own tension between creative and industrial urges.
Douglas Rushkoff | 14 minutes
š§ Listening
Algorithm-Proof Media and New Twists in the AI War:
There's there's nothing in the middle. I think the important part is tons and tons and tons of little companies will be more efficient and better. Owning a small company will be better than ever before and then it's going to be great to hold the stock at the top five biggest companies in the world. But OpenAI ain't nowhere because they're neither and they're the biggest example of the people who aren't anywhere.
Sam LessināMore or Less | 56 minutes
AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing:
These companies are basically supply chain integration and then financing sales and regulatory machines. But that is precisely why GM is totally vulnerable to Tesla and BYD [ā¦] GM is assembling cars, and Elon completely re-engineered how you build a car. And the product difference is dramatic if you are actually doing the thing as opposed to basically milking the cow.
Ben Horowitzāa16z | 80 minutes
Maybe the AI Hype is Real:
There's a whole bunch of technology. I think of it almost as the kind of API and interface layer around the model that makes it useful. It's connectivity to other things that we need it to control and the way that it feels as a kind of partner in whatever we're doing; this new interface. That is the region of competition for OpenAI against Apple and Google in particular.
Troy YoungāPeople vs Algorithms | 57 minutes
š Timeless
1ļøā£ year agoāNoise-Canceling Filters for the Internet are Coming
2ļøā£ years agoāWe Are Thinking About AR/VR Wrong
3ļøā£ years agoāFailure Theory