I got what you did there, Tom. And parallelism with Fascism, real fascism, not the modern media, talking point fascism, has to do with the all-encompassing, soul-destroying intrusion of AI into the writer’s realm. At this point much of the computer generated narrative remains puerile and vacuous, but it is rapidly improving. Secret police started with the Rolodex, and card files, but then came IBM punch cards, magnetic tape, disk drives and cloud storage. Will artificial intelligence put writers out of business? Well, we still have world champion chess players, even though they have been surpassed by computers for three decades. I believe there will always be a Place for authors of conscience who strive to maintain the tenuous link to Humanity and what we used to call Civilization.
I asked AI for Meaning but it said it did not create valuation, only WE could create such. It admitted it would just reflect whatever was already expressed.
So much good stuff comes in, I can't keep up and throw a lot away.
But I'm beginning to look forward to your posts, and check them all. Great stuff, thanks!
Thank you so much, Tim!
I got what you did there, Tom. And parallelism with Fascism, real fascism, not the modern media, talking point fascism, has to do with the all-encompassing, soul-destroying intrusion of AI into the writer’s realm. At this point much of the computer generated narrative remains puerile and vacuous, but it is rapidly improving. Secret police started with the Rolodex, and card files, but then came IBM punch cards, magnetic tape, disk drives and cloud storage. Will artificial intelligence put writers out of business? Well, we still have world champion chess players, even though they have been surpassed by computers for three decades. I believe there will always be a Place for authors of conscience who strive to maintain the tenuous link to Humanity and what we used to call Civilization.
Well said. Much like organic food, I hope and pray that people will be willing to pay a premium for human-made art, writing, et al.
I asked AI for Meaning but it said it did not create valuation, only WE could create such. It admitted it would just reflect whatever was already expressed.
It is a soothsayer, not a truth-teller.