It’s been a long journey since #Lanterns started as an idea from @TomKingTK in the DC writers’ room all those years ago. So happy to see how so many have embraced it, and can’t wait for you to see the Season Finale tonight. 9pm ET on @hbomax.
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
Here's my interview with ABC News about OpenAI, how AI regulation needs to come from outside the industry, how (per @linamkhan ) we already have laws to deal with harmful products, and how hyperscalers' future growth is contingent on AI labs spending hundreds of billions.
This guy worked at Anthropic for six weeks! He worked at OpenAI years before that! He won’t even explain what it is he’s scared of outside of some vague assertion about recursive self improvement, which is still theoretical! This is “something big is happening” all over again
If you ask an LLM to solve a problem in a system you don't understand and it gives you a solution you think looks reasonable, you now have two problems.
I am old enough to remember when people told me GPT-5 was going to be AGI.
I am old enough to remember when people told me o3 was AGI.
And I still remember yesterday when Jensen told me GPT-6 was AGI.
And when Elon Musk told me he had have a million cybercabs by the end of 2020.
None of it was true.
Look, is AI making our lives better? No. But is it making things less expensive? Unfortunately, the opposite. Now, is it making the internet a better place? More slop than ever, actually! But does it allow us to spend more time being creative? That's actually the thing it's best at stealing without shame. Though, surely it's making us smarter, right? You’ll never guess, but…