Report Card for Donald Trump

[SomeGuy]

Quote:The one constraint on computing is that it can't quite imitate human creativity. Can a Mozart piano concerto or a Hokusai painting be reduced to algorithms that suggest how to create something similar in quality yet different enough to be a unique work?  Now that may overpower the ability of people to program the orders to do such.

I don't agree with that as the only constraint, you already mentioned some others above.  But even an algorithm that can mimic certain styles of music (much as they have written an algorithm for morphing images into certain styles of art) doesn't decide which one to use on what image on its own.  There's still scope for a human there to make choices, to cause a thousand permutations of a particular style or piece to be generated and select the most pleasing one, to curate the songs generated, to use the classification algorithms to find new aspects of musical theory.

And there will continue to be a demand for human-generated material, in much the same way that the rise of factory farms and tv dinners has transformed organic, artisan-crafted, locally-sourced, <insert hipster buzz phrase here> food into a positional good for which people will pay a premium.

And of course, the transformation of former luxuries into staples (sugar, tea, spices, ready-made clothes, cars, airplanes, computers, etc.) has been at the core of human economic development, and was the process identified by people like Thompson and Modelski, whom we have already referenced above.  Who knows, one day there may be more farmers in America than assembly-line workers.