This was fascinating -- thanks! About halfway through I paused, got the Paper Menagerie story collection from the library, and resumed listening after I had read one of the stories. Your guest has deeper and better thoughts about AI's consequences for art and other activities than most people. A few parts confused me -- the notion that we should provide statements about what parts of our creations (writings, etc.) are done by humans and what are done by AI assumes that many people won't lie about this, which I find extremely hard to believe. You (Steve) did a great job, as usual, letting your guest speak at length rather than in choppy, interrupted fragments.
Your idea of Disney, for example, asking AIs to churn out Star Wars media is plausible, but not really dissimilar from what we already have. It reminds me of Hardy Boys books -- I assumed when I was a kid that there was a "Franklin W. Dixon" who wrote all these, and I was surprised to later learn that it was the pseudonym of a nameless collective. Now the collective, or at least parts of it, will be AI models, and its output can be video rather than simply text, but the basic idea remains.
Very interesting and frank interview! I disagree with Liu's materialism, which is contradicted by the past life regressions I have performed, but think he makes some excellent points about literature..In our family, everybody has read PKD's novels and watched Blade Runner and Minority Report, amongst others....We are also devoted to Jack Vance, another great world builder who also started, like PKD, by publishing in Ace double novels, LeGuin, and others...
This was fascinating -- thanks! About halfway through I paused, got the Paper Menagerie story collection from the library, and resumed listening after I had read one of the stories. Your guest has deeper and better thoughts about AI's consequences for art and other activities than most people. A few parts confused me -- the notion that we should provide statements about what parts of our creations (writings, etc.) are done by humans and what are done by AI assumes that many people won't lie about this, which I find extremely hard to believe. You (Steve) did a great job, as usual, letting your guest speak at length rather than in choppy, interrupted fragments.
Your idea of Disney, for example, asking AIs to churn out Star Wars media is plausible, but not really dissimilar from what we already have. It reminds me of Hardy Boys books -- I assumed when I was a kid that there was a "Franklin W. Dixon" who wrote all these, and I was surprised to later learn that it was the pseudonym of a nameless collective. Now the collective, or at least parts of it, will be AI models, and its output can be video rather than simply text, but the basic idea remains.
I agree that Moby Dick is wonderful.
Very interesting and frank interview! I disagree with Liu's materialism, which is contradicted by the past life regressions I have performed, but think he makes some excellent points about literature..In our family, everybody has read PKD's novels and watched Blade Runner and Minority Report, amongst others....We are also devoted to Jack Vance, another great world builder who also started, like PKD, by publishing in Ace double novels, LeGuin, and others...
Thank you Professor Hsu!