An interesting perspective on (and process with) AI, from an 82-year-old artist/poet, Dr. Daria Dorosh.
I don’t know if we can really say AI “has no agenda” as she does, because it’s planned and steered by humans (organized in corporations) with agendas. But in some formal sense, it’s true; it has original designs, and we, end users, apply them in a certain way. Of course those planners update the designs periodically, and we can’t see exactly how they’ve updated them.
More than anything I appreciate how Dr. Dorosh’s use challenges herself—to understand her own work, to create more work, to “meet it as the inquisitive five-year-old that you once used to be.” “Treat it like a sandbox that you used to play in,” she says. “Because that’s what it is. It’s there for you, every grain of sand.”