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What Do We Want Computers to Do?

It seems like only yesterday Apple was crushed under the weight of criticism for its tasteless ad destroying creative instruments into a thin iPad. I thought that may have given Apple some insight into how artists use their products to supplement the creative process rather than replace it.

It seems like only yesterday Apple was crushed under the weight of criticism for its tasteless ad destroying creative instruments into a thin iPad. But here we are, watching Apple unashamedly introduced “AI” features at WWDC that write bedtime stories for you and generate images for your school notes on architecture. Predictive text may fall into this bucket, but at its present extreme, generation is used to forge (in both senses of the word, forming and counterfeiting) images and sentences from extensive data.

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