My favorite aha moment here, among many, is this one: “What I think is the most insightful and counterintuitive insight from this whole investigation is that I’m also not sure many humans meet this (creativity) requirement either...”
Love that!
My day job is working with Silicon Valley / MIT companies building tools for data science and AI. Yet my position is that we need fewer data scientists and more data humanists: https://techno-sapien.com/blog/humanists
In other words, AI only makes true creativity more valuable and necessary.
Poetry is my go-to example of why AI definitely lacks creativity. This sonnet, for example, is written in a mechanical way with a forced rhythm, and is full of trite phrases and cliches yet does not contain a single real insight. There is also no actual poesy, no way in which lines or words play off of one another to layer meaning. In fact, this is the only way an AI has ever written a poem.
I do agree with that. What's interesting is it was an idea spawned by a friend and I just asked it to write one. This is the first pass. Is it good? Not really. Can many humans do any better? Most have never even heard of a sonnet. 🤣
My favorite aha moment here, among many, is this one: “What I think is the most insightful and counterintuitive insight from this whole investigation is that I’m also not sure many humans meet this (creativity) requirement either...”
Love that!
My day job is working with Silicon Valley / MIT companies building tools for data science and AI. Yet my position is that we need fewer data scientists and more data humanists: https://techno-sapien.com/blog/humanists
In other words, AI only makes true creativity more valuable and necessary.
Great post.
Totally agree on this. You may also then enjoy this essay on "What Data Science Forgot"
https://polymathicbeing.substack.com/p/what-data-science-forgot
Poetry is my go-to example of why AI definitely lacks creativity. This sonnet, for example, is written in a mechanical way with a forced rhythm, and is full of trite phrases and cliches yet does not contain a single real insight. There is also no actual poesy, no way in which lines or words play off of one another to layer meaning. In fact, this is the only way an AI has ever written a poem.
I do agree with that. What's interesting is it was an idea spawned by a friend and I just asked it to write one. This is the first pass. Is it good? Not really. Can many humans do any better? Most have never even heard of a sonnet. 🤣