Nothing is too wonderful to be true.
—Michael Faraday, quoted in “An Unquiet Mind” by Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison
This is a wonderful sentiment, one almost too good to add on to. However, it is also a reason that generative AI can’t surpass human creativity. AI is limited by what has been done because that’s all it can be fed. There have been attempts to have AI generate its own things and then train itself on them and instead of getting better, it actually gets worse. Humans, on the other hand, can create something from nothing. Some of them are too true to be wonderful, but none of them are too wonderful to be true.
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