Thinking Out Loud

The Taste Question 

“Taste is supposed to be the thing humans bring. We know what we like. We know what feels true. Except… does taste survive when the machine is doing all the heavy lifting? Or does taste become something more like preference, which is a much smaller thing? I could prefer the version where the protagonist is angry over the version where she’s sad. But that’s not taste. That’s whim. Taste is built on knowledge, on pattern recognition across hundreds of books, on instinct honed through years of reading. If the machine has absorbed all that too, then what am I tasting with? My own limitations?”

Mike