Found an interesting analogy for AI from a 1947 design book. László Moholy-Nagy was a core member of Bauhaus, before moving to Chicago and starting the New Institute of Design. He wrote about what happened when plastic replaced wood in industrial applications for tool handles after the industrial revolution. The first few years, manufacturers made plastic handles that looked exactly like wooden ones. Same lathe-turned shape, just different material. Essentially he says, designers were so used to the constraints of the old tool that imaging a new form was difficult and took time. The change came when the people in the industry understood the different constraints of the tools - that with plastic molding, handles could be molded to fit a hand perfectly, didn’t need to be round, could be anything and opened up completely new possibilities of design. Seems like a lot of creatives are doing the same thing with AI right now. Using it to generate the same marketing copy we wrote manually. Asking “how can AI write emails like a human?” instead of “what forms of communication weren’t possible before?” Making it replicate oil paintings and novels… Thought it might be a nice metaphor for why so many people feel threatened by GAI, not taking the new axiom into account. (taken from here https://lukaskubiena.substack.com/p/constraints-shape-possibilities?r=7po9eb ) https://preview.redd.it/r5k6fqnyeilg1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=956303420a1c307a6a9416eee8f41dbf46c307c3 https://preview.redd.it/5imscb90filg1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=a22417d5ff584ec38a417f69a214c4275a6998af submitted by /u/Financial_Donut_64
Originally posted by u/Financial_Donut_64 on r/ArtificialInteligence