Don‘t you think there could be a world where the link to something human might triumph what an AI can generate.

For example: Music is not only about how good it sounds. But also a lot about who the singer is. Their history. What they stand for and what story is behind a album or song.

With AI, I don’t see that we will ever reach that dimension. Expect maybe when AI becomes sentient?

Yes I believe that authentic human creativity is mostly better than artificial. It's like when drum machines became popular in music in the early 80s there was consternation in some circles that this would be the end of drummers. But good drummers like John Bonham, Tony Allen or Vinnie Colaiuta are like magicians whose artistry cannot be replicated in machine form ... but on the other hand drum machines, and electronic 'machine' music enabled incredible vistas of musical creativity.

So maybe AI in music is just another creative toolset that can be used well or badly. My DAW for music creation has auto mastering powered by AI/ML, it does a good job although not as good as a skilled mastering engineer. AI plugins for music composition in DAWs must already exist, they will inevitably get better and more powerful. So I see it as a phenomenon of AI creeping in to our lives rather than a binary dichotomy.

I do think it's problematic - this whole area of AI disrupting the creative arts, and human endeavor in general. I think it's going to carry on creeping into our human creative processes, as new standards of practice and AI acceptance become the norm. We'll still appreciate live musicianship but we won't completely believe it unless we experience it in a live performance.

I agree, the human perspective will remain crucial. I'm torn between being excited by AI-powered creativity and being turned off by it. I will certainly carry on exploring advanced AI tools for writing, music, visual art, etc. for the time being.

For example, I would love to chat with a bot that has a huge memory and context, like a relationship and collaborator, and to train it over many months of conversations so that it becomes like an authentic extension of my creative brain. Then together we could write some serious shit, I'm sure. I think that in the future there may be books written this way that will come to be considered as great works of literature.

But after I play around with AI tools for some time I think I will get bored and will wish to return to a simpler more organic life. Throw away my phone and pick up a paint brush :-)

Exactly!

As mentioned in another comment, I think it's sad if one writes an amazing article but it stays unrecognized or gets little traction simply because the title was a bad choice.

But at the same time, we have lived long enough with clickbait to know it works (unfortunately), and this shouldn't become a place where people are lured into low-quality posts.

I thought it would be nice to immediatly do a write-up.

Otherwise I push it into the future and it never happens.

Happy that I found some time this week.

Yes, I think so too.

At least for this post, I made sure to post it in the afternoon. To have an overall between Eurpean and US time. (I'm based in near Amsterdam)

100%!

Yes, fair point!

I tried to reflect on some lessons from this, because I learned from the experience that small things (e.g. the title) can make large differences.

Which means that often good ideas or nice articles might get unrecognized, because they lack a good "packaging".

Making sure those things are on point helps.

But that should be it.

While working on my website again I've collected some of my favorite personal blogs in a short article.

I'm curious: What are your favorite personal websites and blogs?

This is great too! There are probably some pros in Excel out of sheer necessity because of their work. Thanks for sharing.