Week 8 Reading Response

I thought that the "Handmade Web" article was very interesting because the culture of the web today is much different than it was 20 years ago. In the past, the internet was a lot less commercialized and there wasn't many frameworks/libraries available to create websites. Many of the websites were crafted using basic HTML/CSS/Javascript. In the present, the web is so commercialized with ads on every site. Additionally, there are so many web frameworks available that standardizes the way the web is programmed, which is some ways can hinder creativity.

Reading "Aesthetic Animism" there is a thought that perhaps AI could replace human creativity. However, I believe that human thought is special and cannot be 100% replicated. Most of machine learning is learning from past human examples and really only represents what the AI thinks humans think rather than what the AI actually thinks. The conversation of whether AI is thinking for itself is an interesting one, but I believe that because poetry requires human thoughts and emotions, AI could never truly replace human poetry.