Yeah but can you play the Trumpet 4.1 Pro?

I’m cur­rently enjoying this talk from the dynamic Steve Krouse, and I really liked this quo­ta­tion in par­tic­ular:

Someone wise on the internet said, “If the violin changed every six months, nobody would learn it,” and I think that’s kind of what’s hap­pening with these AI tools.

This makes me proud of the fact that my deepest cre­ative engage­ment with AI involved (and con­tinues to involve) a five-year-old model. I have, at this point, learned its par­tic­ular con­tours and glitches very well, and I believe that level of under­standing is required if some­thing is going to be a true cre­ative medium, rather than … what? A gimmick. A demo?

Steve is a co-founder of Val Town, the plat­form for writing and hosting little com­puter programs. I use it nearly every day: it’s light­weight yet very powerful, and when­ever I find myself won­dering “hey, what if … ?” in a way that con­nects to code or the web, Val Town is my next stop.