Escaping a Hostage Situation - by Five Good Hours
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a response to Ted Chiang -- art and education as apprenticeship, beyond vulgar voluntarism
Like almost everybody who cares about the uncertain, entangled futures of art and education, I’ve spent the past few days reading and reflecting on Ted Chiang’s “Why AI Isn’t Going to Make Art” essay in the New Yorker. Like most, I was glad to see a full-throated rejection of AI-boosterism in a major liberal publication. Tides seem to be shifting towards a healthy skepticism among the professional class, and that is an unambiguously a good thing. But like many, I was underwhelmed by Chiang’s specific arguments, which hinge on what I take to be a naive voluntarism about the art-making…
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