Let’s face it: we are all more or less unsettled by an AI being able to simulate quite accurately what we so proudly call ‘human creativity’.
OK, it’s all based on human work, no one argues that. And it’s still us humans who decide if, how and how much of its outcomes to use, integrate or elaborate. But…
… but once unleashed the AI seems to be able to generate works of its own (no collages, no ready-made pieces sticked together, no copy & paste) and we humans can appreciate them and often even mistake them for real human art – until we are told where they come from.
And, no matter how such a devilish algorithm was created, it is still nothing more than a piece of software running on a piece of hardware.
Which elicits a rather disturbing question: are we proud humans really so predictable? Is our much vaunted, unique, irreplaceable creativity just a mere algorithm running between our ears? Are we really so great as we think?
Good question! i’ve been reading an excellent series of posts on the future of AI (& humans)
Thank you! I know, I followed some of your links at Microstockgroup 🙂
I’ll post next days ‘A very brief history of art’…
Hi Luisa,
thank you for finding the guts to ask – if implicitly – the Final Question: are computers getting smarter and smarter or are we getting dumber and dumber? What is growing faster, Artificial Intelligence or Natural Stupidity?
No offense, by “we” I don’t mean you or me but the humankind as a whole. Of course we are all created equal and woe betide those who dare argue that, but many of us are more equal – actually so equal that you can hardly tell them from each other or from the background.
Evil, me? Well, maybe just a bit… 😉
Sokrates uhm, the name suggests a respectable age and if I may, your words would agree to that.
Don’t take it in with me, but that’s not exactly what I meant in the article.
Nevertheless thank you for your comment 🙂
Oh my, you doused my tiny glimmer of hope… 😉