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Brave New World style, love it!!! But seriously, that is not what art is. Art is not created automatically by a machine. We can program a 3d printer to spit ou

by creep 9y ago

Brave New World style, love it!!! But seriously, that is not what art is. Art is not created automatically by a machine. We can program a 3d printer to spit out an exact copy of the veiled virgin, but will we find it as beautiful? Certainly not. Part of the charm of the artistic process is that a human being's perspective becomes illuminated, in part, in the medium. The natural imperfections of that perception are made beautiful and become less like imperfections and more like variations. A machine, as of yet, cannot do this. A computer program cannot have this multiplicity of perspective which is at once flawed and beautiful. It cannot understand the human emotive experience beyond what is input-output-- and the human emotive experience, as we can all attest, is not composed of input-output events. If we let the machines make our art for us, or to artificially induce the emotions in us, we have lost all understanding of what art is. Art is not utilitarian. We cannot have machines perform art.

mlboss 9y ago
The key phrase is "as of yet". There are ML algorithms called generative models that try to understand the underlying probability distribution that is producing the data. All we need a better generative model that matches the internal state of humans and produces "Art" after interacting with the randomness of the outside world. I think there is nothing magical about being a human. We are complex machines with lot of processes, but nothing that can't be replicated.
- 52-6F-62 9y ago
  I think you're again missing the point. What matters is not even the act of creating in this case. It's the notion of shared experience communicated [in a variety of forms] when we undeniably experience a range of emotions and states that can make us feel endlessly apart from anyone or anything else. It matters that another human was responsible for the creation. That's just to start.
- creep 9y ago
  To think of a human like a machine is to become like the machines. I think you are young. I hope you grow out of that state of mind.

by creep 9y ago

mlboss 9y ago

The key phrase is "as of yet". There are ML algorithms called generative models that try to understand the underlying probability distribution that is producing the data. All we need a better generative model that matches the internal state of humans and produces "Art" after interacting with the randomness of the outside world. I think there is nothing magical about being a human. We are complex machines with lot of processes, but nothing that can't be replicated.

52-6F-62 9y ago
I think you're again missing the point. What matters is not even the act of creating in this case. It's the notion of shared experience communicated [in a variety of forms] when we undeniably experience a range of emotions and states that can make us feel endlessly apart from anyone or anything else. It matters that another human was responsible for the creation. That's just to start.
creep 9y ago
To think of a human like a machine is to become like the machines. I think you are young. I hope you grow out of that state of mind.