I’m just back from reading the transcript of Beyond the Machine, a thoughtful and insightful talk by Frank Chimero.
I’m trying to figure out how to use generative AI as a designer without feeling like shit. I am fascinated with what it can do, impressed and repulsed by what it makes, and distrustful of its owners. I am deeply ambivalent about it all. The believers demand devotion, the critics demand abstinence, and to see AI as just another technology is to be a heretic twice over. Today, I’d like to try to open things up a bit.
I’m surprised by how brilliantly Rick Rubin, Brian Eno, Hayao Miyazaki, and Miyazaki’s Spirited Away are packed into this talk.