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Yancey Ward's avatar

I will play Devil's Advocate. Arnold wrote:

"A schizophrenic and I can both come up with novel word sequences. The schizophrenic is better at generating them. I am better at filtering out the ones that don’t provide meaning."

What is it in you that filters out nonsense from meaning? Would an AI randomly combine words, come up with Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" or Wallace Steven's "The Snowman", and not reject both as nonsense? Right now, it is humans that are doing the real filtering out of what AI produces, and to my way of thinking, humans will still be doing the filtering out 20 years from now by writing the rules for what the AI outputs for consumption.

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T Benedict's avatar

Ethan Mollick has an new article re AI creativity related to your essay. Together, I find what you both say to be fascinating.

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