AI
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Resonant Thoughts: Dwarkesh Patel’s “The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025” (2025)
“To get real creativity, you need to search through spaces of possibilities and find these hidden gems. That’s what creativity is. Current language models don’t really do that. They’re mimicking the data. They’re mimicking all the human ingenuity they’ve seen from all these internet data, which are originally derived from humans” (29). – Shane Legg, Continue reading
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A.I. In Music: Notes On patten’s “Mirage FM”
I recently listened to Mirage FM, a recording by English musician and visual artist patten (Damian Roach) made using sounds from Riffusion. Riffusion is a website that generates audio based on user prompts, adapting Stable Diffusion‘s text-to-image generator to reconstruct music from a database of spectrograms. (Spectrograms are two-dimentional representations of audio’s frequency, amplitude, and Continue reading
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‘In The Style Of’: Perspectives On Creativity From AI-Based Text, Image, and Music Generators
“Innovation, like evolution, is a process of constantly discovering ways of rearranging the world into forms that are unlikely to arise by chance—and that happen to be useful.” Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works “The higher the creativity component of a profession, the more likely it is to have disconnected inputs and outputs.” Naval Ravikant In Continue reading
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