Tikkun Olam, One Prompt at a Time | Sara Wolkenfeld and Samuel Arbesman:
If the Jewish approach to AI does not revolve around the imposition of a single utopian vision, then the focus should be on how AI technologies can act as enabling tools: ones that allow each of us to build the kind of world we might want, enabled by personalized and bespoke software, and interact with information in ways that fit each of us, rather than having to settle for a one-size-fits-all solution. The novelist Robin Sloan has written of the beauty of an “app [that] can be a home-cooked meal.” And now AI provides the ability to prompt new software into existence, whether you are an expert programmer or not. A home-cooked meal, by definition, may never be as perfectly crafted and as beautifully presented as the one you buy in a restaurant, but it holds all the authenticity of human investment. There is an open-ended potential with this tech, allowing each of us to make apps for our own family and communities, using AI to chip away at obstacles and create the world as we might each want it to be.
Maybe the right way to make these home-cooked apps is to reject datacenters in favor of good old muscle power. (Via Robin Sloan — that guy again!)