If such minds of infinite subtlety and complexity and emotional depth could be trivialized by a small chip, it would destroy my sense of what humanity is about – what humans are about, what love is about, what caring about people is about, and what humor is. If that were the case, I would be devastated.
I’ll just have to eat my words and say, “Well, I guess all that complexity was just another kind of circuitry we can manufacture.” You want to write some new Bach music? Just type in b-a-c-h, hit carriage return, and, five minutes later, you’ll have a whole new Mass. Now, if all that incredible poignancy turns out to be something that can be mass marketed on a chip, it will destroy my image of something very deep and sacred to the human spirit. Or take Billie Holiday, singing with some of her accompanists in the 1930s – playing and improvising. Some of my favorite composers are Chopin, Bach, and Fauré. And if we somehow did create it in the short run, it would mean that we aren’t so complex after all, and that we’ve all been tricking ourselves.
I feel the human spirit is infinitely more complex than anything that we’re going to be able to create in the short run.
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But at the same time, if after 10 or 20 years of work my program composed a great novel, made a series of great mathematical discoveries, or wrote lots of great one-liners, I would be terribly distressed. I want any computer program that my students and I work on to delight me with its cleverness. Well, you catch me in a tricky dilemma here.
Wired: So, where are you headed? Are you trying mostly to understand human creativity? Or are you trying to replicate it?
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