Is it really that black and white? What if you do your offline research using AI? What if you took a course about the topic on Khan Academy aided by AI?
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
The whole idea of "there is no such thing as an original idea" is utterly stupid. It's just a hyperbole and some people are taking it literally. Of course there are original ideas. "C is not an original idea, because it's just mixing A and B..." ok so there are only two possbilities: 1. Someone else did mixing A and B before. Okay then we can recursively find the first person who mixed A and B. 2. No one else did mix…
I think that most people are attached to the idea that humans have some type of "soul", even if they don't call it that. This soul, as the thinking goes, is completely separate from material reality, and allows people to have ideas that come "out of nowhere" and are not inspired by anything in particular. In this way, humans are supposedly different from machines, whose outputs are a mere function of their inputs. Th…
You’re going to have a lot of unproductive conversations if this what you believe other people think.
There’s a much richer discussion going on about current-generation AI and its prospects that is grounded in plainly materialist and technical insights, with thoughtful differences of opinion about what current research demonstrates and about what the sophistication of biological/neurological machines may involve in comparison.
You might find that conversation more enriching if you tune into it instead of the one you seem to be focused on.
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#223Nice idea but it feels more symbolic than anything that can actually be enforced. To avoid AI content means intentionally avoiding sites that are designed for cheap monetization and nothing more. That includes most blogs today; the ones that aren't personal websites. Most 'review' websites are exactly this; they offer a generic description and add an Amazon affiliate link. We won't know for sure what sites are using…
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I'd say it's possible that there have truly not been any original ideas, and the earliest human ideas might've been just remixing observed natural phenomena. What would muddy the waters there is that humans are complex organisms that in turn exhibit naturally complex behaviors both on an individual and a societal level. And there's even emotions that we feel due to our biology. But if you define all these as phenomen…
No true original ideas and there was just remixing natural phenomena? Really? So writing was just remixing all the writing that people saw volcanoes and rainstorms do?
I would advise reading allllllll the way till the second sentence in my comment.
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#225Can LLMs produce new content?
Define new
I'm not quite convinced humans create original ideas as often as some think
Any text I write is vaguely influenced by everything I've experienced(Other media, Real life experiences) even if it's not a conscious process
Depending on where you draw the line, I'd say most artistic work would't qualify as actually new
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#226Very cringey. Not helped by how it also dictates how you should use it. Why do they care about the shape or the color?
The branding appears to be inspired by Apple's Made for iPhone branding (https://9to5mac.com/2018/03/10/apple-updates-made-for-iphone...) and Apple is indeed assertive of proper use of branding.
Of course, a juxtaposition between this and Apple is very silly.
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Not if creators are paid nothing for their work. I think inescapably, the profession of writing is about to take a big hit from GPT-X, with the few remaining journalists paid considerably less than before. There will be an exodus of talent, leaving... Microsoft and Google to write our news for us?
If you just copy and paste from Reuters then you're not a real journalist. ChatGPT can't travel to a war zone to find out what's going on there. So real journalists aren't going anywhere.
No journalist has a job where they spend all day copy/pasting AP/Reuters. This is a simplistic dismissal of the nature of working in a news organization. It would be akin to me saying that using code from a Stack Overflow response makes one 'not a real developer'.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Philosophical food for thought: if all content is recycled / mixed from the past, when did innovation and creativity stop? In other words, if there is truly no such thing as an "original idea", then how did the ideas that we are pulling from, deriving from and combining come into existence? If all we are saying is that existing ideas inspire new ones, or that most human generated content is derivative, then I complet…
That "1%" original is almost always just 1% uncited/unknown inspiration. If you listen to the stories of how things like major inventions came into being, it's almost always some domain expert visited some domain in which they were not an expert and inspiration struck on how to combine the domains. Otherwise, the rest of invention is either human imitations or improvements to things found in nature or not inventions…
So Ramanujan with no formal training in mathematics was really surrounded by advanced education of mathematics and had no original ideas? I feel if more people studied philosophy they may discover how problematic these reductions are.
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#229The smiley face is not centered and doesn't look very good. Agree with the idea though.
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 2. No one else did mixing A and B before. The "Mixing A and B" is a new idea. With such definition, GPT-4 can create new ideas.
I'm finding it spectacular for generating ideas. Ask it for "40 ideas for plugins I could build for Datasette" for example. The results are comparable to what I've seen from a meeting room full of humans for an hour, but GPT-4 generated them in less than a minute.
Really? I feel like if you have to ask what plugins to build you’re doing it wrong. You should know what plugins to build by being a user of Datasette and understanding its limitations for your self.