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I'm luddite enough to be frightened by it all. I keep looking for the pony in the room full of shite, but inside, I'm just....scooping. We are in uncharted territory. It's the antithesis to the computer in Star Trek: TNG that created food and beverage, saving mankind, re-ordering the economic values in such a positive way that all benefited from it. Instead, we get the destruction of capital, the pretense to art and an investment in things that create images of our past--while our future is a desert landscape of creation and innovation.

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May 16, 2023Liked by Tom Wark

"Pictures worth a thousand words..." Images illustrate. This piece offers one of the clearest and most understandable illustrations I've seen yet about one tiny aspect of "AI" -- its promise and its threats. Nice job ! Thanks ...

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Remarkable! Loved the drawings the computer did. The trend of rewarding the super talented (developers of AI, for example) and penalizing the mediocre (most of the rest of us)continues. Great job, Tom, once again.

Dave Jefferson

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The sticking point with AI, though, is that it can't innovate. There will never be a new style of art, a new technique, without humans first breaking that ground for AI to "learn" from. If we hadn't already established "art deco" and "watercolor" styles, AI couldn't give you anything like it. Maybe the technology will get to that point, but nothing in the current AI models allow for out-of-the-box "thinking". If what you want is something you've seen before, AI is your go-to. If you want something that stands out or is different, I think AI is still very far off from that, if what we currently call AI even can go there.

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