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When people say "but will AI ever be able to produce art?" I think works like yours is a good thing to point to. In the end, whatever art will be produced by ma

by tw1010 9y ago

When people say "but will AI ever be able to produce art?" I think works like yours is a good thing to point to. In the end, whatever art will be produced by machines is somehow going to be initiated by a human hand. Your work makes it trivially clear that the answer to the question is (1) yes, and in fact they already are, but (2) there is still going to be a person who will need to use his or her personal taste to filter out the bad from the good, which might be what is going to replace the old way of creating things from scratch, e.g. with pen and paper.

fma 9y ago
Already starting in music https://qz.com/790523/daddys-car-the-first-song-ever-written-by-artificial-intelligence-is-actually-pretty-good/ https://qz.com/790523/daddys-car-the-first-song-ever-written...
fsloth 9y ago
"but will AI ever be able to produce art?" I think the modern definition of art is that art is anything that the observer perceives as art. "and in fact they already are, but (2) there is still going to be a person who will need to use his or her personal taste to filter out the bad from the good, which might be what is going to replace the old way of creating things from scratch, e.g. with pen and paper." No. Currently AI are synthesizing extrapolations from existing data. They can paint like van Gogh only because they have sufficient samples of the van Gogh style to learn the style transfer. Currently you still need a human to invent the style, at least. On the other hand, once a style is invented, it's a matter of taste I suppose where the border lie. Ancient painter masters did hardly paint everything by themselves. The most prolific were more like Walt Disney or Damien Hirst who employed and employ legions of workers to implement their vision, and the artist merely signs off sufficiently high quality work. So, I suppose you are wrong and correct at the same time.
dreen 9y ago
The same people said Pink Floyd (and other early electronic music artists) aren't musicians because they use synthesizers. It's fundamentally misunderstanding what AI is (and what art is too, for that matter).
visarga 9y ago
Instead of painting, selecting pics generated by a neural net? Anyone could do that. Or, probably, there's an app for that.
- Toast_25 9y ago
  Read the article that describes his technique.

by tw1010 9y ago

fma 9y ago

Already starting in music https://qz.com/790523/daddys-car-the-first-song-ever-written-by-artificial-intelligence-is-actually-pretty-good/ https://qz.com/790523/daddys-car-the-first-song-ever-written...

fsloth 9y ago

"but will AI ever be able to produce art?" I think the modern definition of art is that art is anything that the observer perceives as art. "and in fact they already are, but (2) there is still going to be a person who will need to use his or her personal taste to filter out the bad from the good, which might be what is going to replace the old way of creating things from scratch, e.g. with pen and paper." No. Currently AI are synthesizing extrapolations from existing data. They can paint like van Gogh only because they have sufficient samples of the van Gogh style to learn the style transfer. Currently you still need a human to invent the style, at least. On the other hand, once a style is invented, it's a matter of taste I suppose where the border lie. Ancient painter masters did hardly paint everything by themselves. The most prolific were more like Walt Disney or Damien Hirst who employed and employ legions of workers to implement their vision, and the artist merely signs off sufficiently high quality work. So, I suppose you are wrong and correct at the same time.

dreen 9y ago

The same people said Pink Floyd (and other early electronic music artists) aren't musicians because they use synthesizers. It's fundamentally misunderstanding what AI is (and what art is too, for that matter).

visarga 9y ago

Instead of painting, selecting pics generated by a neural net? Anyone could do that. Or, probably, there's an app for that.

Toast_25 9y ago
Read the article that describes his technique.