It's been a long time since I was fully gratified by a film I had longingly wanted to see – A Complete Unknown, about the Nobel-prize winnin’, free-wheelin’ Bob Dylan. The story was immersive. The actors were embodiments of the originals. And the music was real - no overdubs, no lip-synch, no AI. Timothée Chalamet… Continue reading AI’s Greatest Gift: What it Means to be Human and the Emerging Authenticity Economy
Category: Creativity
Three Scenarios in the Post-AI Revolution: Renaissance, Demolition Man and Goldilocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXlUX4A6kU Wooly mammoths parading in the snow, pirate ships navigating waves of coffee, and intimate walks through the streets of Japan - Oh my! The reaction to Sora, Open AI's new text-to-video generator, has been, simply, WOW! (See Cleo Abram's enthusiastic reaction below.) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ByR_kZ892yA Yes, we've been inundated by large language models like ChatGPT, Gemini,… Continue reading Three Scenarios in the Post-AI Revolution: Renaissance, Demolition Man and Goldilocks
Lennon, Elvis and Princess Leia: Digital Doubles, Deep Fakes and the Double-Edged Sword of Generative AI
A Midjourney generated image. On November 2, 2023, the world welcomed, probably, the last Beatles song ever to be released. While a 1970s demo tape recording of John Lennon's "Now and Then" was considered for release in the 1990s, the producers felt the quality of the recording would be a great disappointment to fans, so… Continue reading Lennon, Elvis and Princess Leia: Digital Doubles, Deep Fakes and the Double-Edged Sword of Generative AI
A New Global Babylon: The Potential of the Universal Translator and the Rise of the Global Super-Empowered Tribe
A Midjourney generated image. The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built. And the LORD said, "Look, they are one people, and they have all one language…. Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech." - Genesis… Continue reading A New Global Babylon: The Potential of the Universal Translator and the Rise of the Global Super-Empowered Tribe
The Rising Occurrence of Self-Censorship and the Rising Need for Critical Thinking
It was a simple question posed by the Thai filmmaker. What did these six film and TV productions have in common? Spotlight, directed by Tom McCarthy JFK, directed by Oliver Stone Social Network, directed by David Fincher The Crown, created by Peter Morgan All the President's Men, directed by Alan J. Pakula A… Continue reading The Rising Occurrence of Self-Censorship and the Rising Need for Critical Thinking
What it Means to Be Human: Our Competitive Advantages Over AI
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." "The ultimate measure… Continue reading What it Means to Be Human: Our Competitive Advantages Over AI
Outsourcing Humanity: A Love Story, by ChatGPT-4
I've recently been obsessed with crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Those who sign up to these platforms do Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) - online jobs like answering surveys, identifying images, transcribing audio files, providing sentiment response, or proofreading. In exchange, they get paid relatively small amounts from twenty cents to several dollars. Some who… Continue reading Outsourcing Humanity: A Love Story, by ChatGPT-4