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Future Mythology, AI, and the Myth of Creativity
You might have noticed (or not) that I’ve started in on a thing called Future Mythology. This is mythology in the sense of narrative allegory—stories that explore how Spirit, Man, and Intelligent Technology interact.
We’ve been down this road a number of times before in human history, and there are any number of imaginable outcomes possible when this mix is present.
Vis-Ã -vis, we have this hot debate going on now about using AI to create music and art. Some people want to do away with it, outlaw it, or otherwise restrict it. Let me just say: this is not going away. Once you let the stuff out of Pandora's Box, you can’t get it back in.
It’s a remarkable debate, really. It’s remarkable that it’s even going on.
It’s a debate that could only exist in a society with a rather slippery grasp on the concept of creativity to begin with—a society that confuses the act of making anything at all with actual creativity.
Let’s be real: creativity was always a gamble. You could end up having a life like Beethoven or Mozart, for crying out loud.
Imitation has always been more lucrative. Imitation has always been safer and more socially acceptable.
In this age, it’s being actively suppressed. Frank Zappa talked, in one interview, about how, in an earlier time, record executives were cigar-smoking old guys who would say: “I don't know what it is, but let’s release it and see if it sells!” Then came a group of younger, hipper record executives—and Zappa said we were better off with the old cigar-smoking guys.
Why? Because the younger, hipper execs “knew better” what would sell.
I can’t think of a time when change has been more stuck, unless it’s the Dark Ages with the Gregorian chants.
So my point is this: this debate on using AI to create music and art is a moot point.
AIs—and computers in general—were built and programmed by humans and, like their human counterparts, are mostly programmed to imitate, rather than create anything truly original.
The joke is still on humans, because we will probably have self-programming AIs long before we have self-programming humans.
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