It's brilliant to compare inspiration, skill, perspiration, grit as a form of epilepsy! (Sci-fi) authors think about tech and society constantly, and here we have two examples (100 & 70 years old) warning us about what happens when machines dismantle the imaginative practice of human writing.

Here's what D-503 says about us living in the current era:
"What difficulties our predecessors had in making music! They were able to compose only by bringing themselves to attacks of inspiration, an extinct form of epilepsy."

Another book on the same theme is "We" by Zamyatin (published in 1924!). The main character, called "D-503", lives in a machine-driven future where he describes machines that create symphonies by the minute. Convenient, right?

Ah, det skulle kunna innebära att hetsen kring att köpa in iPads till skolorna för några år sedan nu alltså ”ger effekt” i statistiken eftersom just dessa elever antagligen får bättre resultat? 🥴

Open source AI models are not like open source software. Here’s an enlightening episode:
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