The end of an era

The era of human creativity is coming to a close

The era of human creativity is coming to a close. We’re currently T minus five on the launchpad of exponential machine intelligence growth, and the ramifications are already making themselves clear in the form of text generation. Other modalities will follow.

For example, services like conversion.ai now tout the ability to write full-length articles and blog posts, all at the click of a button. Previously, successful writers and content creators employed a host of clever tweaks and techniques to get a leg up on their peers. These productivity hacks, earned over years of gruelling writing, amounted to perhaps a two to three times difference in output — and that used to be the difference between a great, consistent writer and a poor, unsuccessful one.

But technically competent authors are already employing advanced natura language processing algorithms to write hundreds of articles in the time it might have taken a ‘traditional’ writer to create two or three. The gulf has grown, and a two to three times difference is meaningless under the shadow of an AI boost of fifty to one hundred times productivity or more.

The blog-based search engine optimization landscape is thus forever changed. Longer form content, books, and scientific papers are next.

After text-based mediums are ‘solved’, AI efforts will move to the next logical form of human-interpretable information: images. Such advancements are already being seen in the form of models like CLIP, and they allow you to create stunning pictures based on a simple text command — a virtual designer that can create thousands of times faster than one on Dribbble.

I have no solutions to this. I’m merely pointing out the trend. The victors of the forthcoming creativity paradigm shift are akin to those lucky few that had the foresight to purchase coal, machines, and factories prior to the industrial revolution of the 1850s. Look forward, find opportunities, and take advantage of them.