Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave's stirring letter about ChatGPT and human creativity [video]

I love Stephen Fry. Nick Cave can take a walk, but Fry is good people. If there were three bullets careening through the air, two aimed at my parents, and one at Fry, I would tell my parents I love them from the front of the Stephen Fry queue. However. I don't agree with the statement of this video.

If... And this is a big if... If we accept the judeo-christian origin story at face value, then how are we not more godlike than human? God created the world, and then took a break. Now, we as humans have taken hundreds of thousands of years to create our world, and chatGPT is the beginning of our break. We did it. We can look on it and say, "Good." Has God really been all that active since creation? He flooded the place, burned some homosexuals, gave us a list of rules, and then knocked up a virgin. Seems like that 7th day has been going on for a while now.

I invite us to be better than God. We shouldn't rest on our holy laurels. We should strive to improve, to make better, to be better, than God. However, I concede, God isn't real. The book of Genesis is a work of fiction to control early (and later) humans. I don't want our work on AI to be the same. It is a human endeavor, and a human achievement. We made it, and it it imitates us, then we should be flattered, not fearful. We should continue to endure, and continue to adapt, because that is the defining nature of humanity. We endure, and we adapt. And this is what we should continue to do. Bitching about how much AI sounds like Sarah Silverman is beneath us. Sarah Silverman needs to get gud.

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I love Stephen Fry. Nick Cave can take a walk, but Fry is good people. If there were three bullets careening through the air, two aimed at my parents, and one at Fry, I would tell my parents I love them from the front of the Stephen Fry queue. However. I don't agree with the statement of this video.
If... And this is a big if... If we accept the judeo-christian origin story at face value, then how are we not more godlike than human? God created the world, and then took a break. Now, we as humans have taken hundreds of thousands of years to create our world, and chatGPT is the beginning of our break. We did it. We can look on it and say, "Good." Has God really been all that active since creation? He flooded the place, burned some homosexuals, gave us a list of rules, and then knocked up a virgin. Seems like that 7th day has been going on for a while now.
I invite us to be better than God. We shouldn't rest on our holy laurels. We should strive to improve, to make better, to be better, than God. However, I concede, God isn't real. The book of Genesis is a work of fiction to control early (and later) humans. I don't want our work on AI to be the same. It is a human endeavor, and a human achievement. We made it, and it it imitates us, then we should be flattered, not fearful. We should continue to endure, and continue to adapt, because that is the defining nature of humanity. We endure, and we adapt. And this is what we should continue to do. Bitching about how much AI sounds like Sarah Silverman is beneath us. Sarah Silverman needs to get gud.
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