Ted Chiang
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American science-fiction writer, author of the collections Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation, and an essayist on artificial intelligence for The…
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11 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Art is what results from making an enormous number of choices, and a prompt contains almost none of them. (opens korrents.com)
“But let me offer a generalization: art is something that results from making a lot of choices.”
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What a generative model makes is a replication of art rather than art, because it can only imitate or average the choices human makers have already made. (opens korrents.com)
“One is to take an average of the choices that other writers have made, as represented by text found on the Internet; that average is equivalent to the least interesting choices possible, which is why A.I.-generated…”
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The small choices made while executing a work matter as much as the big idea behind it, so inspiration cannot be separated from the labour. (opens korrents.com)
“What I’m saying is that art requires making choices at every scale; the countless small-scale choices made during implementation are just as important to the final product as the few large-scale choices made during the…”
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Art is what results from making an enormous number of choices, and a prompt contains almost none of them. (opens korrents.com)