Loved the post! Would be curious for your take in a follow-up post on the impacts human artists will feel IF AI is suddenly able to complete works other humans deem artistically valuable. Seems to me that this is an under-theorized outcome with how much of AI discourse pre-LLMs was about freeing us for these artistic endeavors. Where does that dreaming imagination go for people if even the creative endeavors can be automated?
I'm not sure if it's correct to equate the things in the opening. Apparently AI is bad at arithmetic (but may be able to pass some maths exams). But passing a maths exams is the same thing as passing an English exam - it can do both. One thing it absolutely cannot do is create new mathematical theorems, which is more on par with "writing a novel".
I agree with everything you say (though the question about whether God exists sounds like a non sequitur to me). Surely a more basic formulation of this argument is that we go to art and literature to meet another (human) mind. To be moved by mutual understanding that transcends time and space. It really doesn't matter how sophisticated AI gets at writing novels - this stumbling block remains.
Loved the post! Would be curious for your take in a follow-up post on the impacts human artists will feel IF AI is suddenly able to complete works other humans deem artistically valuable. Seems to me that this is an under-theorized outcome with how much of AI discourse pre-LLMs was about freeing us for these artistic endeavors. Where does that dreaming imagination go for people if even the creative endeavors can be automated?
I'm not sure if it's correct to equate the things in the opening. Apparently AI is bad at arithmetic (but may be able to pass some maths exams). But passing a maths exams is the same thing as passing an English exam - it can do both. One thing it absolutely cannot do is create new mathematical theorems, which is more on par with "writing a novel".
I agree with everything you say (though the question about whether God exists sounds like a non sequitur to me). Surely a more basic formulation of this argument is that we go to art and literature to meet another (human) mind. To be moved by mutual understanding that transcends time and space. It really doesn't matter how sophisticated AI gets at writing novels - this stumbling block remains.