One of the things that surprises me about our hopes for AI is the belief that it will somehow imbue us with creative powers that we don’t have.
The idea that GPT is
going to make you funny is a bit like thinking you could be John Lennon if GPT would teach you how to play guitar.
GPT might help you pass off some bit of wit in an email, but any art it creates (comedy is art) is going to be circumscribed by its inability to be truly creative rather than merely copy/regurgitate existing material. And the reason art is hard is because people are extremely perceptive about what is actually creative/funny/surprising. You can’t fake it.
I dunno, it seems like it would be good at finding linkages between different topics and then coming up with a word or concept that relates to both. This is at the heart of much humor.
Will it have a good hit rate? Surely not at first, but of course it will get better over time. And just like with graphic arts, much of the value is that it can create lots of options, and you can choose to just use the ones you like best. It's like a wacky brainstormer that is sometimes right-on (or inspires you to create something that you never would have thought of).
But then you have all the things you don't see. The CGI/fx artist that spent hours upon hours handcrafting realistic background CGI to some movie scene? Could very well be replaced in the not-so-distant future.
The first huge wave of ML/AI automation will involve all the things you don't notice straight away.
how much time do you spend looking at AI art though? a casual jaunt through midjourney will certainly get you some weird things, but there are some gems in there (but also a lot of weird).
this seems like a great library, but it is missing a date picker. it’s hard to find UI libraries willing to take on the date picker, i guess because native pickers, esp on mobile, get the job done?
The idea that GPT is going to make you funny is a bit like thinking you could be John Lennon if GPT would teach you how to play guitar.
GPT might help you pass off some bit of wit in an email, but any art it creates (comedy is art) is going to be circumscribed by its inability to be truly creative rather than merely copy/regurgitate existing material. And the reason art is hard is because people are extremely perceptive about what is actually creative/funny/surprising. You can’t fake it.