Research Questions
Making
Where the things you make come from.
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Research Questions
Making
Where the things you make come from.
9 questions
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Can a machine have an original idea?Ada Lovelace wrote that her engine could originate nothing, only do what it was ordered to. Machines now turn up things no person has seen.Pick one of 4
- If anyone can make anything in seconds, will anyone still be seen?The ability to produce does not guarantee that anyone has time to receive what is made.
- Is a thing worth more because it was hard to make?We prize the handmade and the hard-won. If a machine made the same thing in a second, ask what, if anything, would be missing from it.
- Is it stealing to train AI on people's work?The writing, photographs and conversations people shared online became training material for machines that can now imitate them.Pick one of 4
- Mastery or possessionWhen something good comes out of you, is it yours — or are you the mouth for something you don't understand?
- When does an idea become yours?An AI gives you the same opinion it gives thousands of others. Is it yours?
- Who did the work?If an AI learned your solution from you and handed it to a stranger, whose work is it?
- Why did the Chippu paint the Deucalion myth at the Laurel Bridge?The Manager let one Chippu dress the Laurel Bridge. Under its fountain he painted Ovid's flood, where two survivors throw stones over their shoulders and the stones become people, and each time it ends he washes it off the wall and paints it again.
- Would you still write?If every book you could ever write already sits finished on a shelf you can reach, do you still write?Pick one of 3
