I wonder if Midjourney and similar apps are not good enough in this sense?
And if so, is that because they still require too much agency and creativity from the user (unlike penicillin or Angry Birds)? (Of course, there is also a strong backlash from many artists, together with strong praise from many other artists.)
But yes, ChatGPT and similar apps are all controversial (e.g. one can build a virtual friend of various degrees of closeness, and there are services like that, but then it is perceived as detrimental to the fabric of the society).
Self-driving cars do finally work in San Francisco, and that's exciting, but also controversial, and, moreover, people are reporting being excited the first time they use it and then treating them as routine (and also they are so gradually phased into our society that they don't feel new; when they were new and super-exciting, they were too buggy, and now they work all right, but no longer all that new).
So I wonder what do we want in this sense? Something, a) non-controversial, and b) not requiring any agency or creativity from the user? We can probably build something satisfying only a), like an AI-based consumer generator of games ("generate your own game today"), or satisfying only b), like an audio-based strongly psychoactive app, but a) and b) together are a tall order.
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Date: 2023-09-01 01:14 pm (UTC)And if so, is that because they still require too much agency and creativity from the user (unlike penicillin or Angry Birds)? (Of course, there is also a strong backlash from many artists, together with strong praise from many other artists.)
But yes, ChatGPT and similar apps are all controversial (e.g. one can build a virtual friend of various degrees of closeness, and there are services like that, but then it is perceived as detrimental to the fabric of the society).
Self-driving cars do finally work in San Francisco, and that's exciting, but also controversial, and, moreover, people are reporting being excited the first time they use it and then treating them as routine (and also they are so gradually phased into our society that they don't feel new; when they were new and super-exciting, they were too buggy, and now they work all right, but no longer all that new).
So I wonder what do we want in this sense? Something, a) non-controversial, and b) not requiring any agency or creativity from the user? We can probably build something satisfying only a), like an AI-based consumer generator of games ("generate your own game today"), or satisfying only b), like an audio-based strongly psychoactive app, but a) and b) together are a tall order.