Do many artists actually claim explicit intention though? I'm thinking of D H Lawrence's "Not I but the wind that blows through me", but lots of other examples.
And vice versa, some early uses of "planchette" treated it as a proper noun, capitalised and given agency - Anthony Powell does this.
Many thanks for pointing out Ted Chiang's piece. I'm a big fan of his work, but hadn't seen that one. I have trouble agreeing with the idea that there could be no agency, but I loved reading through your reasoning. I wrote a few months back about how I thought AI was just an abstraction of the human labor involved. Without all the underlying labor it wouldn't exist (original text/art plus labeling data and correcting models), so to me it is more a tool used by capitalists to pretend that humans aren't needed, rather than anything that could have its own agency independent of the people creating/directing it. You can read some of my thoughts here if you're interested https://open.substack.com/pub/bathruminations/p/review-of-omon-ra?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=jxqbu
I gave a talk at UW Econ a few years ago that (as an aside) used a particular ML algorithm (GANs) as a model for how supply and demand work and relating it to information theory
General relativity is weird. Quantum mechanics is eerie.
I'll also quote a tweet from Erkhyan Rafosa (@Erkhyan):
"It’s funny how recognizing AI nowadays is just the same old rules as recognizing the fae in old tales. 'Count the fingers, count the knuckles…'"
Do many artists actually claim explicit intention though? I'm thinking of D H Lawrence's "Not I but the wind that blows through me", but lots of other examples.
And vice versa, some early uses of "planchette" treated it as a proper noun, capitalised and given agency - Anthony Powell does this.
Many thanks for pointing out Ted Chiang's piece. I'm a big fan of his work, but hadn't seen that one. I have trouble agreeing with the idea that there could be no agency, but I loved reading through your reasoning. I wrote a few months back about how I thought AI was just an abstraction of the human labor involved. Without all the underlying labor it wouldn't exist (original text/art plus labeling data and correcting models), so to me it is more a tool used by capitalists to pretend that humans aren't needed, rather than anything that could have its own agency independent of the people creating/directing it. You can read some of my thoughts here if you're interested https://open.substack.com/pub/bathruminations/p/review-of-omon-ra?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=jxqbu
I gave a talk at UW Econ a few years ago that (as an aside) used a particular ML algorithm (GANs) as a model for how supply and demand work and relating it to information theory
https://informationtransfereconomics.blogspot.com/2018/10/outside-box-workshop.html