ChatGPT Did Not Write This Talk

Yesterday I was invited to give the final talk of the year for the Tech Leader Chats meetup group, which is run by Multitudes from NZ. I had a righteous rant about generative AI and creativity, and I think I did a pretty good job with it! My references are below, and you can watch the talk online here:

I also wanted to share the list of references and news stories that I mentioned during the talk:

“The Great Automatic Grammatizator” by Roald Dahl

Google’s “Dear Sydney” commercial that ran during the Olympics

Alexandra Petri’s response in The Washington Post to Google’s ad

Forbes‘s article suggesting you use ChatGPT at the Thanksgiving table

The Verge‘s review of Google’s Pixel 9 phone

The Guardian’s story about LJ Hooker’s hallucination-filled home listings

The Harvard Misinformation Review‘s article about GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar

The Atlantic‘s exposé revealing that AI systems have been trained on TV and film writers’ work

The Verge‘s article about OpenAI engineers accidentally erasing critical evidence from a lawsuit

Study in Nature about how AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect

Bruce Sterling’s blog post about “Delvish”

Wired‘s story about the prevalence of AI-generated text on LinkedIn

International Business Times story about the environment crisis the AI industry is exacerbating

Dr. Linda McIver’s keynote from PyconAU 2024

Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

Ted Chiang’s essay on why AI isn’t going to make art, from The New Yorker

Slate article about this year’s NaNoWriMo AI controversy

The Bookseller article about new startup Spines aiming to disrupt publishing

Issue #218 from Nick Cave’s Red Hand Files

The Economist article about the AI investment bubble

Procreate’s AI statement