Good provocations for a Monday morning. If I’m honest, this question just makes me mad. “And how can we prove that human intelligence and consciousness are unique from computers?” I don’t want to prove it, but I guess a future world of Terminators that look like us and say things like us and maybe mock bleed like us means we need to refine our pattern assessments. I actually failed the NYT AI vs real photo test and realized I had no framework or tools to really understand what was fake or real. I think that’s what you’re getting at.
I feel like AI right now is making me double down on goals where commodification isn’t the goal. So taking photos of a shadow. Or a strip mall. AI is going to supplant stock photography and probably optimize for pseudo real shots of “young person looking at half dome.” But AI is built on scale. It won’t scale untold stories. Or that’s my hope. Once it does, I guess we will be screwed because at that point, culture will be outsourced.
Love this question. Have you read James Bridle's Ways of Being yet? The book goes into the nature of intelligence and explores it from three angles: human, natural, and artificial. Worth checking it out!
Good provocations for a Monday morning. If I’m honest, this question just makes me mad. “And how can we prove that human intelligence and consciousness are unique from computers?” I don’t want to prove it, but I guess a future world of Terminators that look like us and say things like us and maybe mock bleed like us means we need to refine our pattern assessments. I actually failed the NYT AI vs real photo test and realized I had no framework or tools to really understand what was fake or real. I think that’s what you’re getting at.
I feel like AI right now is making me double down on goals where commodification isn’t the goal. So taking photos of a shadow. Or a strip mall. AI is going to supplant stock photography and probably optimize for pseudo real shots of “young person looking at half dome.” But AI is built on scale. It won’t scale untold stories. Or that’s my hope. Once it does, I guess we will be screwed because at that point, culture will be outsourced.
Love this question. Have you read James Bridle's Ways of Being yet? The book goes into the nature of intelligence and explores it from three angles: human, natural, and artificial. Worth checking it out!