Dr. David Eagleman

It's going to have to tell you the middle of the curve.

But the surprising part is the part that you circled there, which is the one on the edge is the one that humans like.

Why?

Because we're constant novelty seekers.

We care about the things that are new.

Oh, I totally agree.

This is consistent with what I was saying, which is that AI can be massively creative in terms of the generation of something, but you need humans to do the selection.

I'm only arguing the point that AI is not good at saying, okay, I've generated 100 songs.

This is the one humans will choose.

We end up saying, hey, wait, this one is just weird and unique enough that I really like that.

Right.

But here's the thing, and you know that we all know this, which is that the code never lasts.

So humans have this...

where they're always seeking things between novelty and familiarity.

So we like things where we recognize the brand and we recognize what the singer has done before, but there has to be novelty or else we're not going to go for it.

We're not going to listen to that boy band for the next 10 years doing the same song over and over.

So you're, of course, right that we want a bit of familiarity.

We want to be anchored, but we definitely seek the new.

This is what humans always do.

This is why car companies always release the next model, even though the current model is perfectly fine.