Other Than That, I Enjoyed the Film
Paul Pfanner doesn’t do film reviews unless there’s a race car in them. Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey earned an exception. A standalone piece alongside his columns on Tesla and SpaceX.
Real to Me, Synthetic in the Making
Last week Paul Pfanner argued the barrier to making anything had fallen away. So he wrote and produced an album in a week to test it, and came back with the harder question waiting on the other side: what part of the work, and what part of him, is still real.
What You're Here to Do
Paul Pfanner on the one thing still standing between you and the work you're here to build.
The Death of Creativity (Again)
Bill Sparks reaches back six hundred years to show that every accusation aimed at AI today — "no skill," "no soul," "just pressing a button" — has been leveled at every significant creative technology since the Renaissance.
How Creativity Works
Modern neuroscience has demolished the myth of the creative genius — and replaced it with something more useful: a system you can actually train. Bill Sparks explains what separates the people who do it consistently from everyone else.