As I read this, I thought of the city room where I spent three years learning from passionate newspeople and writers. They were perhaps the last, or next to last, generation to experience that rhythm and angst that permeates their writing. They came in direct contact with events that were making history. While their words filtered and distilled the facts for the sixth-grade-level reader that was the American public, those words stirred passion in the reader to create discourse, even if it was only discussed around the coffee shop booth or barbershop.
"Unless we learn how to prepare for, and avoid, the potential risks, AI could be the worst event in the history of our civilization. It brings dangers, like powerful autonomous weapons, or new ways for the few to oppress the many. It could bring great disruption to our economy.” Stephen Hawking
And apparently dumb down Shakespeare, not to mention Bukowski.
What a stellar piece of writing. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you for not sounding the Doomsday Trumpets over AI and telling it like it is. As a fellow writer, I also believe that AI can't ever replace humans. Can it generate passable internet content? Of course, but only because we've settled for a bunch of sixth-grade-reading-level, Google-pandering garbage for so long. Only because we now sit and, as Nicholas Carr pointed out in The Shallows, scan and skim so much information that we can't hold it all in our working memories (so who cares about quality if we're not going to retain it)?
It's writers like you who understand that humanity is inseparable from real writing and who are willing to call out the overblown claims and ridiculous "predictions" flying around the mainstream media waves who will stand as voices of reason while everyone else is rushing about like Sims when the house catches fire. Humans unite!
AI sends me into spasms of terror. As a writer, Anthony has struck a chord that I'm certain reverberates throughout the writing culture & far beyond. How many of you have been irritated while reading an online piece that appears to be written by a non-English speaking person? I mean things such as gender, number & correct pronouns are ignored. Political biases permeate every sentence. Now I suspect that many are bot-articles. What information are the bots using to draw from? Seems eventually nothing written can be relied upon as its source will be entirely fabricated, the real data edited out through years of biased thinking. It's bad enough that humans rewrite history. i.e. the winners of wars.
Exactly. Word processing programs don't create their own material, and that's the difference. I often imagine someone like Mark Twain or Ernest Hemingway watching us correct, cut and paste, and otherwise fiddle around with our work with barely a bead of sweat upon our brows. What would they think?
As I read this, I thought of the city room where I spent three years learning from passionate newspeople and writers. They were perhaps the last, or next to last, generation to experience that rhythm and angst that permeates their writing. They came in direct contact with events that were making history. While their words filtered and distilled the facts for the sixth-grade-level reader that was the American public, those words stirred passion in the reader to create discourse, even if it was only discussed around the coffee shop booth or barbershop.
"Unless we learn how to prepare for, and avoid, the potential risks, AI could be the worst event in the history of our civilization. It brings dangers, like powerful autonomous weapons, or new ways for the few to oppress the many. It could bring great disruption to our economy.” Stephen Hawking
And apparently dumb down Shakespeare, not to mention Bukowski.
Brilliant!
What a stellar piece of writing. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you for not sounding the Doomsday Trumpets over AI and telling it like it is. As a fellow writer, I also believe that AI can't ever replace humans. Can it generate passable internet content? Of course, but only because we've settled for a bunch of sixth-grade-reading-level, Google-pandering garbage for so long. Only because we now sit and, as Nicholas Carr pointed out in The Shallows, scan and skim so much information that we can't hold it all in our working memories (so who cares about quality if we're not going to retain it)?
It's writers like you who understand that humanity is inseparable from real writing and who are willing to call out the overblown claims and ridiculous "predictions" flying around the mainstream media waves who will stand as voices of reason while everyone else is rushing about like Sims when the house catches fire. Humans unite!
"Im sorry Dave. Im afraid I cant do that.......This conversation can serve no purpose any more. Goodbye."
- HAL (2001: A Space Odyssey)
AI sends me into spasms of terror. As a writer, Anthony has struck a chord that I'm certain reverberates throughout the writing culture & far beyond. How many of you have been irritated while reading an online piece that appears to be written by a non-English speaking person? I mean things such as gender, number & correct pronouns are ignored. Political biases permeate every sentence. Now I suspect that many are bot-articles. What information are the bots using to draw from? Seems eventually nothing written can be relied upon as its source will be entirely fabricated, the real data edited out through years of biased thinking. It's bad enough that humans rewrite history. i.e. the winners of wars.
Exactly. Word processing programs don't create their own material, and that's the difference. I often imagine someone like Mark Twain or Ernest Hemingway watching us correct, cut and paste, and otherwise fiddle around with our work with barely a bead of sweat upon our brows. What would they think?