- What does Chiang say about effort? What is it’s role in the creative process?
Chiang is saying that effort inspires an individual to embrace their creativity within the work they put in. Effort plays a role in the creative process by letting the individual construct an idea and really think about the technicalities that come along with it, doing this helps develops ones understanding and the quality of their work becomes more authentic. - What does he say about the purpose of college essays?
Chiang says that the purpose of the college essays is to help students with their critical thinking skills and communication skills. He claims that if AI writes their essay for them, the students loses all the learning value/ material from completing the essay themselves. When someone is actively writing a college essay with their own thoughts this helps them not only form their ideas on a paper but enhances their abilities to clarify their ideas and how to explain themselves in a way the reader can understand as well. - What does he say about “skill” and it’s relationship to intelligence?
Chiang explains that skill actively demonstrates how a persons mind has the ability to understand and interpret something. Whether it’s drawing, writing or doing math etc., putting these skills to practice helps train ones intelligence overtime. He claims using a machines to complete these task for you defeats the purpose of developing your own cognitive abilities. - Why, according to Chiang, is A.I. “a fundamentally dehumanizing technology”?
Chiang believes A.I is a fundamentally dehumanizing piece of technology because it removes the human authenticity of ones intelligence and their creative side. When doing a task people use the skills they learned before to practice to help them formulate their thoughts, but when AI steps into the equation it completely by passes that, leaving just the outcome of what was asked for. This diminishes the human development processes and their creative minds depletes.
- Having read “Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art” by Ted Chiang, what are your thoughts? Do you agree or disagree with Chiang? Why or Why not? Does what he argues resonate with your experience as a user of technology or a creator/writer?
My thoughts about reading Ted Chiang article is I do believe that AI cannot make art, but it can 100% replicate it. I do agree with the statement of the amount of effort and creativity it takes to recreate any art or piece of writing, I believe that everything a human does is intentional. There’s always meaning behind what any individual does which makes us more human than any AI can replace. It gives us as a society a sense of normality since our day of age you can’t recognize what is authentic and what is not. It also goes to show the amount of effort one is willing to put out there to share their personal experiences and put their cognitive skills to use to communicate their beliefs/opinions on a topic their passionate about indulging themselves in.
