Post #1683645

To balance Ted Chiang's essay on AI and art,* there's this from @TedUnderwood - 'In many ways, generative AI is just an extension of a project that the internet started thirty years ago: a project to reorganize knowledge interactively. ... Once we get past the silly-ad phase of adjusting to language models, the effect of this technology may actually be to encourage people to try doing more things for themselves. The risk is not necessarily that AI will make people passive; in fact, it could make some of us more ambitious'. https://tedunderwood.com/2024/08/31/will-ai-make-us-overconfident/ If chatbots can help with @GeePawHill 's 'handle jiggling'** - all the faff new coders have to get through to get started - it could make code a lot more accessible * https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art ** https://mastodon.social/@GeePawHill/113060074290729527