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Job Automation: Are Writers, Artists, and Musicians Replaceable?
You’re probably reading this from either a smartphone or a laptop. It’s no small secret that the device you’re looking at can create works of art… if you put your mind to it. But therein lies the point that Andrew McAfee makes in this video: you need to put your own creativity into the computer for it to work. Interestingly enough, computers are pretty adept at creating architecture and music. This is largely because what is pleasing to the quote-unquote “Western aesthetic mind” is easy to replicate. Music follows a formula, as does pleasing architecture and design. But when AI tries to replicate the human condition or relate in any way to emotions and feelings, that is where even the smartest computer brains fail. Great news for all us writers out there. Not so great for all the graphic designers, though!
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