Can We Please Put AI on Hold for a Couple of Years?

AI spits things out with or without you directly plugging in a question to AI. That being said, I flat out refuse to directly do so. It's a thing I have, and I'll give you a shining example of what I mean without getting into the rape of consent angle of it.

Over the last year, I've actually been taking my writing seriously. There is no fcking way that I would EVER utilize AI as a writer. It's appalling how many people think that's legitimate authorship. I am so sick of hearing, "I'm writing a book," when nobody's writing a fcking book. "Well, it's my idea." Good luck with that.

In similar fashion, I still feel the exact same way about digital photography that I always have. You are 9/10 not as good as your equipment. I have several canisters of 35 mm film - FILM - in my fridge as well speak.

There's something about standing there thinking about depth of field, F-stop, manually focusing a lens, and a dark room that can't be beat. I don't care what professional digital photographers say to me about the artist still being behind the camera, nobody will ever be able to change my mind.

AI shouldn't be anywhere the fck near human creativity when it comes to the human ear, the human eye, or the written word. It's soulless cheating by the "artists" who use it for that purpose. Anyway, back to sports.

 

It's not going to stop. I've been kind of tracking the progress of AI as it pertains to generating "art" and it's currently acting like an advanced search that references all of the artwork it has absorbed into it's library, then spits out an aggregated result based on the request. It gets a lot more refined than that in the more expensive models but that's basically what it is, and the more I think about it, it's really not all that different from how we learn and create.

I think the best thing we can hope for at this point is actual artists using it to create, instead of Internet hustlebros making a quick buck from it. The world is changing very quickly right now.

 

I get it, especially the second paragraph, which I pretty much said, just in a different way. Give me someone who paints with the naked eye with a primitive tool any day of the week.

I read Isaac Asimov's 'The Last Question' when I was 13. That was a really long time ago. It freaked me out then, it freaks me out today, and it has never been more prescient. That being said, it still had - and was - human intelligence. It wasn't a rogue machine.

You can't stop "progress" or technological advancement. What you can do is not actively participate as much as humanly possible. The operative word being humanly.

 

Contrary to what may be believed I’m not deliberately trying to be an asshole but even pre-AI search engines wouldn’t have given you the information you wanted immediately with something as broad as “Texas Football tonight.”

AI’s pretty cool if used as a tool and not a primary resource. If you work in a middle management-ish finance or programming position I’d start finding a new trade though. It’s going to suck up a lot of spreadsheet jobs.

 

I didn’t miss the point. Your search for “Texas football tonight” is wide open. There are a dozen relevant Texas football teams.

AI is supremely flawed but this is a bit of user error.