2407241731 agents of creative productivity

etcs and a reading list on generative AI from the last week till today

After the mobile phone almost everyone in the creative industries becomes a content creator. Now in the age of generative AI inadvertently we are internet advertisers. Posting online, our real world goods and services. Internet money is the social currency generated by the likes, shares and subscription your content generates. More digital transactions garnered better your chances are to get access to currency. With digital natives who do not have access to a reality without social-media or the internet, the world is a different place. We see reality first from the point of the view of the virtual before actually experiencing it.

The early personal website is a static page. The constant virtual display of productivity is a newly manifested form of labour. A validated being on the internet is expensive. Either you have to be part of a community or create one on your own. How this collective around a profile grows is very organic and not often linked to physical networks. Concepts to know of is the Dot com bubble of the late 1990s, its crash in the early 2000s and with the rise of social media, to succeed as an attention seeker, a minimum of 100 true fans are essential. With generative AI stakes on the internet is updated.

Without a personalised agent, to improve efficiency of generative AI tools is unlikely. Implementing a bot from your website using your data is the flex to aspire for. Before getting there just like asking the question, why you need a website and what you want it to do for you the same aspirations need redressal. Similar to deciding what you want to upload and show as work, to use automate work, it is essential to fix the workflow first. Knowing how work is created and how it is optimised and therefore made efficient is a learning to get to. What is productivity subject to the work you do?

Automation is never an intrinsic part of the creative process, since it is always considered as amorphous. As a result any creative knowledge work by nature is inefficient. Does generative AI have any significant to offer to the many arts and craft disciplines is but a matter of trails and errors whilst creating with these new services. Sundar Pichai is worth hearing here, “The risk of underinvesting is dramatically greater than the risk of overinvesting for us, not investing to be at the front here has much more significant downsides.” All services sold as generative AI are in various stages of beta testing, inadvertently forcing all of us too participate in the process.

As its been around two years we have this technological upheaval to redress certain patterns emerge. There are weeks with fervent activity then a gap. There are two camps who are the front runners in the discussion, the evangelists and the naysayers. A middle ground does not exist as once you are part of the experiments there is no way out but to push forward. Agents are an example to introduce a culture of adoption. Rather than a general purpose service, a set of specific instructions are collected in a container and run when desired. Like a robot in a factory assembly line that does a task allocated for it. Is that creation process creative is thought to pick on.

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