[Discuss] The Domesticated AI

[Dale R. Worley]

> From: abreauj at gmail.com

> [Regarding https://gist.github.com/blu-jabr [I've somehow lost the
> record of where John sent that out.  -DRW]]

Well, it reads like you've written it to be read by a very select
community of people with a *lot* of common knowledge.  That is, I
couldn't make hide nor hair of it.  If you want this to be a
"manifesto", you need to orient it toward a less specialist audience.

> From: Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org>

> The weather is getting better: I'm going to go for more outside
> exercise.

    Explore the big blue room.  Marvel at its resolution and rendering speed.
    -- from alt.sysadmin.recovery

> From: Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com>

> Every creative type I
> know -- authors, actors, artists, gamesmasters, you name it -- who has
> tried using a chatbot agrees that chatbots don't help their creativity.
> If anything, they find chatbots hinder their creativity.

The difficulty is that the actual market for "creativity" is fairly
small; most "creative types" are employed as "illustrators", that is,
the customer wants some sort of IP that has certain properties, doesn't
care about how unique it is, and is price-sensitive.  The result is you
get e.g. 
https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fb932a46-6b89-4eba-99c3-a9860876c484_1126x614.jpeg
It would have taken an actual artist at least a couple of hours to
produce that, but it's "Art by Nano Banana 2", it gets the job done, and
it costs 1/10 as much.

    We define disruptive technologies as those that offer "good enough"
    solutions to new groups of consumers, often at radically lower prices.
    -- Scott Anthony and Clayton Christensen

    Disruptive Innovation is the process of cheap, low-quality products
    ultimately displacing expensive, high-quality products, typically
    ruining the prospects of organizations caught on the losing side.
    -- Rich Apodaca
    [And the prospects of individuals caught on the losing side.]

Dale