Guest Speaker: Dennis Yi Tenen
Wow, this was my favorite guest speaker that we’ve had in Applications thus far. It was refreshing listening to someone optimistic about AI tools and the arguments he provided made me really think. Essentially, my belief is that technology continues to expand and it’s not necessarily a bad thing, more people will be able to create. However, the “good” one’s will be able to differentiate themselves. Everyone owns a camera now, does that mean everyone is a good photographer? In the future, everyone will be able to generate an image they can claim to be ”art”. Does it mean that they’re an artist?
Socrates
Scroll - post creativity writing hinders thought
Some day 1890s or 1990/ was post creativity
Creativity - writing is an automation of sorts
Post creativity is specific
Factory today vs 100 years ago
Industrious scale 300 novels per lifetime 1850s
Today you can write 300 novels in a few minutes
Dictionary- you had to walk to library, then it was printed, then surge box, now it’s in ur phone
Automation labor disruption
Photography - digital phones came - now everyone a photographer - today photography as a filed is now alive than ever
What it means to be a photographer changed - wedding photographer (overall expanded due to democratizations) - expansion (Instagram)
Nature of work will change but with great new opportunities
History - story of expansion not contraction
Think of yourself as a producer - bringing sophisticated tools - act of orchestration
Book recs - American Detective, conspiracy theories, folktales
People haven’t gotten stupider with calculators - math is more complicated now
Usage of maps in favor of gps