sunday evening musings

(and a laugh and a song)

will AI emancipate or enslave humanity? will it enable new heights of creativity to be scaled or mire us in in a recursive, derivative progress trap?

i doubt the (AI generated) song to follow will put any of these questions to bed and more likely than not stands to serve as a sort of rorschach test to elicit the priors of the viewer, but consider another possibility:

consider that binary thinking, even about that whose “thinking” (if, indeed we are to call it such) is binary may constitute an overly limiting framework, a lens that does not clarify but rather twists into funhouse horror shapes our sense of the world.

what if it is all we fear and all we hope and yet none of those things and many things besides, things of which we have not yet dreamt, things which we as yet have no adequate intellectual concepts to conceive much less describe.

it’s going to be a wild ride my friends, a civilizational and evolutionary road trip for the ages and like any good road trip, it must hold promise and perhaps danger, aspiration and frustration, but at least it’s going to have a rollicking soundtrack.

because don’t seriously try to tell me you never wanted to hear the beach boys sing “99 problems” by jay-z….

(good luck getting that out of your head before bedtime…)