Artificial intelligence and creativity

[Mick1]

GR has published a book (GR, I don’t have the link, otherwise I’d put it here), and my first mystery novel comes out next spring.

Getting it published was an arduous process, to say the least. Most publishers and agents asked if any part of the book was written by AI. If so, that’s a hard stop, for two reasons: first, because AI doesn’t respect copyright, so if you’ve used AI, you’re copying someone else’s work, however inadvertently. The second reason, however, is that AI cannot create. It cannot ideate, not in any substantive way.

Just for grins, I spent two hours populating the theme, characters, plot, dialogue and all other elements of my novel into AI software designed to turn ideas into a book. MAN, did the output suck. My book is 99,000 words, the software turned out 60,000 words without a single useable sentence.

Right now, AI is like the world’s best intern, compiling data at light speed, with enormous and alarming gaps. I don’t see the day coming when it takes over strategy at even the lowest level.

 

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[Mick1]

BTW, Sam Altman, founder of OpenAI (ChatGPT) expresses three worries, or in his words “scary categories.” They are as follows:

1. Bad actors / adversary get ahold of artificial intelligence and uses it to attack the United States and the West. Take down the power grid, take over banking. Their cybersecurity issues are huge.
2. Loss of control. AI doesn’t want to be turned off.
3. AI takes over the world. It doesn’t achieve “HAL” levels of consciousness, but it never turns off. They end up running everything. We end up relying on them. No malevolence, but we veer in a strange direction.

He didn’t mention the millions, possibly tens of millions of humans thrown out of work as one of his core concerns. He thinks that the AI/human symbiote will turn into something great.

“This terrifies me” – OpenAI CEO on his 3 greatest fears of AI

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