Comment by jrm4
2 hours ago
This is personal opinion anecdata, but I'm noticing the following.
It's only the mediocres that rail against AI; actual geniuses are like "hey, another tool. Cool."
2 hours ago
This is personal opinion anecdata, but I'm noticing the following.
It's only the mediocres that rail against AI; actual geniuses are like "hey, another tool. Cool."
You haven't noticed this, you just want it to be true because it makes you feel good.
Weird take, but okay.
So, I like the hip-hop. Timbaland and RZA have embraced it; a number of other unknowns who are okay but not great haven't.
But nice try!
If you use an AI to generate all your work, then are you the genius or is the AI?
If you generate work enough above average to be awarded major international prizes they you are. If everyone produces the same quality from the same AI it will simply move the bar.
You're assuming a level playing field, but what if better trained AIs are only usable by a select group of people wealthy enough to pay for it?
It's certainly going to exacerbate the advantage that wealthy kids going to elite universities have at becoming geniuses.
If it didn't exist before and it exists now and is useful, sure.
It's not like you push a button and it releases something awesome.
Nobody in this story used an AI to generate their work, and there's not much confusion about who the genius is in it.
If you use a power saw to cut the boards to build your house, did you really build your own house?
If the power saw also drew up the blueprints of the house and chose its design elements, then I'd say the power saw built the house.
The difference that makes AI more than just a tool is that it comes up with creative ideas, or at least plagiarizes them very well.
AI removes the bottom rungs of the ladder you need to climb to reach the top.
For now. Soon, the ladder will be a pair of stilts; best get to the very top before that point.
Yeah, like Rob Pike.
I mean....
nah, I am kidding.
But I will say that accomplished names in software that also make bombastic statements against AI are people that were... "opinionated" to begin with, and skirt the line between genius and madness quite often. I am thinking names like Jon Blow.
I'd say that most of the big names probably have nuanced opinions and do their own thing rather than spending time on social media.
Like aphyr?