Yesterday I was invited to give the final talk of the year for the Tech Leader Chats meetup group, which is run by Multitudes from NZ. I had a righteous rant about generative AI and creativity, and I think I did a pretty good job with it! My references are below, and you can watch the talk online here:
I also wanted to share the list of references and news stories that I mentioned during the talk:
- “The Great Automatic Grammatizator” by Roald Dahl
- Google’s “Dear Sydney” commercial that ran during the Olympics
- Alexandra Petri’s response in The Washington Post to Google’s ad
- Forbes‘s article suggesting you use ChatGPT at the Thanksgiving table
- The Verge‘s review of Google’s Pixel 9 phone
- The Guardian’s story about LJ Hooker’s hallucination-filled home listings
- The Harvard Misinformation Review‘s article about GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar
- The Atlantic‘s exposé revealing that AI systems have been trained on TV and film writers’ work
- The Verge‘s article about OpenAI engineers accidentally erasing critical evidence from a lawsuit
- Study in Nature about how AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect
- Bruce Sterling’s blog post about “Delvish”
- Wired‘s story about the prevalence of AI-generated text on LinkedIn
- International Business Times story about the environment crisis the AI industry is exacerbating
- Dr. Linda McIver’s keynote from PyconAU 2024
- Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
- Ted Chiang’s essay on why AI isn’t going to make art, from The New Yorker
- Slate article about this year’s NaNoWriMo AI controversy
- The Bookseller article about new startup Spines aiming to disrupt publishing
- Issue #218 from Nick Cave’s Red Hand Files
- The Economist article about the AI investment bubble
- Procreate’s AI statement