Scripting News: Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Art much simpler than some people think. It's not like a batting average or a weather forecast. It's not something that can be measured objectively. Art is the response that it evokes in the observer. It's art when people say "that's not art." And when someone says only human professionals create art, if he really believes that, he has no freaking clue what art is. #How can we tell if ChatGPT is intelligent? How can I tell if you're intelligent. How do I know I'm intelligent. It could be my "intelligence" is as algorithmic as ChatGPT's. It could be that my intelligence is only a survival mechanism, and the only way I could think of something I think is intelligent is if it furthers my chance to reproduce. But what happens when our intellect instructs us to destroy the environment we depend on for life? It could be we are already obsolete, without the robots, it sure feels that way, and that our only ark that could lead us to a new place where our species can survive in some form is for us to morph into electronic beings whose intelligence is distributed around the planet so we don't die if it becomes uninhabitable in one place, but not in others. And a LLM might thrive in an environment that can't support human life. #
Walter Isaacson asks if ChatGPT can rival a student's intellect. My answer as a former teaching assistant who graded lots of student programs, absolutely. It rivals the intellect of every human being I know, including professors. It hasn't learned yet how to synthesize new ideas, it seems. And there are strong guardrails that keep it from going into certain areas. It is more capable than we know, therefore. BTW, I didn't realize he teaches at Tulane. I got my undergraduate degree there in 1976.#
Linkblog items for the day.
Microsoft and Google are putting AI chat into all their apps everywhere you can enter text, which imho is as pointless as embedding web browsers in all of the Office apps in 1994. ChatGPT is the Netscape of this generation. Compete with that, create the best environment for the kind of work we do there. That's the game, from a UI standpoint. windowscopilot.news
Stan Krute inspires with his ChatGPT renderings. facebook.com
Doc Searls coaxes art out of ChatGPT. searls.com
"You may think our art is awful, but for me it's been a revelation." bsky.app
2018: How journalism is like the Mets. scripting.com
'The chatbot has transformed my life.' bbc.com
Used Teslas are getting very cheap. arstechnica.com
How can we tell if ChatGPT is intelligent? scripting.com
Carmelo Anthony reveals unknown part of Linsanity. nypost.com
Julia Evans' git cheat sheet. wizardzines.com
A Stretchtext Vocabulary. methodandstructure.com
The gift of a three-month sabbatical. zeldman.com
This is America's ruling class. nytimes.com
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