Technology gets better, especially smaller, and in many cases faster.
But the fastest train is still a train. If no one needs to or wants to go from point A to point B, even if travel were instantaneous, it would not change the root cause of using it or not.
AI and other scientific breakthroughs make things faster. An article is written with a click. A mathematical calculation that once took hours now takes a click. Done. Art, music, movies, everything can be created with a click.
But if no one is interested in music or art, or at least not in the amount now available because of AI, then what is the art or creation for?
Last but not least: Is the outcome automatically better or more profound just because it was created faster, or with the knowledge of the entire world? Isn’t art, or creative ideas, something that evolves over time? And hasn’t it often been the case that having fewer options created something more insightful and better structured than bringing in everything available worldwide every single time?
What if AI reaches a point where no one cares anymore, because everything is AI, repeating its own inner-bubble creations for AI? So what does speed, faster calculations, faster production of anything imaginable, finally bring to the table, except that we can do things completely differently? Yet once this level becomes the new norm, what comes next?
Speed isn’t creativity. Speed isn’t understanding. Right? Think about it.
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Author: Modis Chrisha, artist, music producer and writer, exploring the intersection of technology, human potential, and society.
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