Somewhat derailed by yesterday’s news, I pushed this post until today, but I wanted to offer a counter-balance to last’s week’s video tearing apart the tech industry mania of about AI with a thoughtful one from a different Adam.
The video could be divided into two parts, one about AI and the other about connecting with people online (or the difficulty therein). And while there may not be a through-line at first glance, it flows for me, because Savage talks about A.I. lacking a point-of-view, which he finds integral to art and creative endeavors, that point-of-view is one of the ways you can actually find “your tribe”…by which I’m going with the Merriam-Webster definition of “a group of persons having a common character, occupation, or interest”… who one might say has a point-of-view that grooves with you.
And right now, AI, like too much of the internet, doesn’t seem to be about points-of-view or understanding points-of-view or connections… and that really seems to be more about what we need from technology. Yeah, I’m leaving these thoughts open-ended.
(You look at the thumbnail image above and look at the video and this looks like an AI image… which is a whole other sticky wicket…)