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The trope of the sci-fi robot has been so engrained into our cultural narrative that I think people constantly underestimate the creative capabilities of AI. Pe
by kleiba 2y ago
The trope of the sci-fi robot has been so engrained into our cultural narrative that I think people constantly underestimate the creative capabilities of AI. People still think in terms of this dichotomy of math/science and art/creativity. But AI has already broken through so many boundaries of what anyone would have believed possible just a few years ago.
I hear people complaining about uncanny valley stuff all the time, but I think these guys are just hanging on to old-world thinking. Because it cannot not be what must not be.
But even today AI is doing incredibly hard stuff that most people would have thought could never be done "mechanically" by a mere machine. Think coding assistants. If you don't think they are absolutely amazing, you are nuts! Sure, there's still a long way to go to perfection, but we don't have to wait until we get there because a lot of what is possible today, let alone tomorrow, is already incredibly useful.
- mkleczek 2y agoThe point is: art is a means of communicating _between people_. We can appreciate pictures/movies/music generated by machines but at the end of the day we (people) are in a deep need of connection to _other people_. I don't believe replacing people with machines in this context is possible (one might say: by definition). But if it happens it will be the anti-utopian world of loneliness.
- kleiba 2y agoThis is exactly the kind of argument I think is informed by 20th century ideas of AI. I also think in this form, it greatly exaggerates the issue at hand - AI will not totally replace human-human communication. Also, since the original context is Hollywood movies, I don't think that there is a lot of "art" in the storytelling of big block busters. Why AI shouldn't be able to write a compelling story needs to be argued more convincingly, I think.
- tartoran 2y agoWhen it comes to blockbuster movies AI could certainly create them, they're so formulaic that you could probably even get away with Markov chains.
- xenospn 2y agoI use AI coding assistants every day and while they're helpful, they're nothing more than a glorified autocomplete.
- kleiba 2y agoI beg to differ. No autocomplete in the traditional sense can take a human language description of something you want to achieve and produce code that implements just that. Or at least, some version of that. And if you're not happy, you can refine - either by hand, or by having a dialog with the AI. You can also give it buggy code and it can critique it. That's an order of magnitude more advanced than autocomplete.
- xenospn 2y agoAdvanced autocomplete is still autocomplete.