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AI will obsolete anything fomulaic, and that’s ultimately good the way the horse obsoleted carry heavy bags over long distances on foot.

I would bet huge sums AI will never obsolete the creative. It’s just a dumb robot doing what it’s told, no matter how specific or iterative the instructions.

mark tyler 2y ago

Today, where even horses are not economical for most heavy-bag-movement-use-cases, we find *people* carrying heavy bags long distances.

I think creativity will be the same. Most of what we think of as economically-relevant “creativity” will be replaced, some will remain, and plenty of economically-independent or tangential creativity will keep being done by humans to scratch the human entertainment / inspiration itch, at least insofar as that itch requires that humans be the scratchers. I’d guess this is a smaller percent of the demand for creativity than the romantics think.

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Chris Liss 2y ago

I agree what most people think of as creativity (pop songs, Hollywood) are formulaic and could eventually be done by AI. But I don’t think it’ll contribute anything important, anything in the canon, so to speak.

mark tyler 2y ago

Unless we can agree on an objective meaning of “important” I’d say definitionally that you’re right and wrong?

This AI production is probably “important”, being the first AFAIK to win an art competition.

If AI creates some art - let’s say a painting -depicting the death of the last human, if it were to do that, and broadcasts it across the universe and carves it into each new world it visits, that would certainly meet my criteria for an “important” work.