Originally Posted by
Gumble
What does the human mind do, but "shuffles and remixes" until it comes up with something that seems new, or a new way to look at something? Our brains are just a collection of neurons firing ON or OFF that create our memories, ideas, thoughts. To think a computer cannot get to the point where it can mimic what we do..... you'd have to have quite the limited view on creation. If your view is a religious one, that our creation is based on some sort of divine intevention and not us simply using what we know to produce new ideas, then ok, good luck with that.
As a perfect example, a bunch of people 2000 years ago remixed an Egyptian god with Judaism and created Christianity. That seems to have grown and survived pretty well. You really think an AI couldn't have figured that out?
Just consider for a moment, that every script, idea, paper, and concept that AI comes up with adds to its "knowledge" and allows it to grow and "learn". Once someone programs it to be able to judge what ideas work and what don't, it can then learn quite rapidly.
Pretending this cannot grow exponentially out of control, and that AI isn't already past the point where writers striking to prevent its use is just loud seppuku, is foolish. This strike is telling the people that own media companies that they need to move forward with AI even more, because it will replace the people that cause them trouble, and to pretend that the AI we have now cannot easily replace the crap that's produced nowadays, and likely do a better job...... forgive me if I think you give the writers who are striking more credit than they deserve.