We recap the phases of our friendship, from the time we met in kindergarten, then when we reunited (and wrote folk songs together) in high school, and roomed together in NYC. Eventually we deep dive into questions about AI—is it like a brush, a tool for artists? Will it give rise to a creative revolution like photography did with painting? Will it destroy the market for artists’ work? What kinds of jobs are safe? Somewhere in there we ponder what it means to be an artist and what defines art.
Mentioned in this episode…
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Neil Postman)
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art - Ted Chiang in the New Yorker
John Baldessari - Influential artist who enlisted his students to be his ‘paintbrush’
Tristan Harris (featured in the documentary, The Social Dilemma) and his sometime collaborator, Daniel Schmachtenberger, who writes on “sensemaking” and lots of other stuff.
