Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” – Ecclesiastes 1:2
You know that feeling that you’ve seen these things before? No one was creative. Nothing is new. It’s all just poorly made sequels and movies based on toylines from the 80s?
Well, thousands of years ago, other people already also had that same feeling.
AI cannot Invent. It cannot experience.
The feeling of looking out across a green pasture, curls of fog clinging to the surface of the pond while the cool air shifts and brushes your skin is a human experience. You’re still groggy from a late night, so you’ve muddled through the process of making a cup of hot coffe and are standing on the patio of your home looking at this beautiful scene. Who you are, the time you scraped your knee in 5th grade because there was sand on the asphalt when you were playing flag football matters.
The LLMs that just predict the next letter in the sentence can never have your human experience. While a room full of monkeys banging on typewriters may eventually randomly create Shakespeare, they won’t understand why Romeo was a spoiled emo bloke who got himself and a rando girl he just met killed. It won’t have the warmth of the feeling of hearing the soundtrack to Baz Lerman’s rendition of that movie because you and your sister once watched it together while your parents were busy exploding their marriage in the other room.