I enjoyed the thoughtful range of this conversation. I particularly loved the back and forth about AI. There are so many knee-jerk reactions about the technology but very few deeper interrogations about what it actually means for us as a society. I don't agree that all the generated art is terrible - I think the default you get without some iterative creative prompting and adding in some of your own special sauce with Photoshop, etc. is bland. I agree with Sam's perspective that AI makes us confront ourselves. What we thought we were good at is simply not the thing, but something else entirely.
The only thing that causes me anxiety about AI at the moment is the speed at which carpetbaggers can pump out loads of word-shit-salad to earn a few dollars while the more thoughtful artists, writers, and film makers do the slow process of assimilating the tools into their skillset to make truly transformative stuff.
Great podcast Alexandru! So happy to have discovered it through Sam this morning.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Over the years I've moved away from being a techno-optimist to wanting a serious societal re-evaluation of our connection to technology. We need to explore what makes tech a tool that works for us instead of us working for tech or part of tech. I want to reject the cyborgification of humanity.
I think we're close neighbors on the spectrum of this topic. I've earned a living with technology to feed my kids and pay for college but I've always been an artist and seen technology as a tool.
Happy you got Sam Kahn on here. We met up in NYC and had a great conversation. My world keeps getting smaller. I'm gonna listen to this one on a nice walk.
I enjoyed the thoughtful range of this conversation. I particularly loved the back and forth about AI. There are so many knee-jerk reactions about the technology but very few deeper interrogations about what it actually means for us as a society. I don't agree that all the generated art is terrible - I think the default you get without some iterative creative prompting and adding in some of your own special sauce with Photoshop, etc. is bland. I agree with Sam's perspective that AI makes us confront ourselves. What we thought we were good at is simply not the thing, but something else entirely.
The only thing that causes me anxiety about AI at the moment is the speed at which carpetbaggers can pump out loads of word-shit-salad to earn a few dollars while the more thoughtful artists, writers, and film makers do the slow process of assimilating the tools into their skillset to make truly transformative stuff.
Great podcast Alexandru! So happy to have discovered it through Sam this morning.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Over the years I've moved away from being a techno-optimist to wanting a serious societal re-evaluation of our connection to technology. We need to explore what makes tech a tool that works for us instead of us working for tech or part of tech. I want to reject the cyborgification of humanity.
I think we're close neighbors on the spectrum of this topic. I've earned a living with technology to feed my kids and pay for college but I've always been an artist and seen technology as a tool.
Happy you got Sam Kahn on here. We met up in NYC and had a great conversation. My world keeps getting smaller. I'm gonna listen to this one on a nice walk.