If creative AI gets really good, writer Ted Chiang says it will never make real art.
The story “Story of Your Life,” which was made into the movie “Arrival,” made Chiang one of the most admired science fiction writers working today. In addition, he has written great pieces for The New Yorker about the risks and problems of AI.
Reading his most recent piece in its completeness is highly recommended. While Chiang agrees that big language models have a lot of promise, he also says that generative AI has been most successful at “lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read.” Technology that treats us less than what we are—creators and receivers of meaning—is fundamentally dehumanising.
Although Chiang admits that it is “notoriously hard to define,” he does his best to explain what art is: “Art is something that results from making a lot of choices.” Even if those choices don’t lead to a great book, painting, or movie, you’re still “communicating with your audience.”
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“Everyone is a product of what came before them, but we give life meaning by interacting with others,” Chiang says. Nobody should ever tell you that an auto-complete program can’t do that.
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