YES! The thing that we seem to keep coming back to is *creativity*. Necessity is the Mother of Invention, and to date Artificial Intelligences do not seem to have needs.
Yet, I find endless creativity in the compiled images that AIs like Midjourney generate.
Sure, it's the result of an infinite number of chimpanzees banging on typewriters, yet some of the images that I have generated have blown me away in some fashion.
Friends who are into cosplay have recognized the generative usefulness of AI as a creative prompt, curating the results.
In his book Fall, Neal Stephenson posits a very familiar future where we all need help curating the reality of what we find on the internet.
There is so much convincing information out there that is absolutely false, that those who cannot afford to pay for curation are captives of their own inbuilt prejudices.
In Stephenson's future, people still had the ability to "tune" curation toward their own beliefs about what reality is.
Some relied on AIs to do the work for them.
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