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I think it's another case of moving the goalpost whenever AI can do something that used to be exclusively human. If we could send DALL-E's images back in time 1
by pornel 4y ago
I think it's another case of moving the goalpost whenever AI can do something that used to be exclusively human. If we could send DALL-E's images back in time 10 or 20 years, everyone would say "of course it's a real art, computers are too dumb to do that!"
I expect DALL-E to pass a picture-based variation of the Turing test (an evaluator asking human artists and AI to draw things). The current implementation has a few small giveaways like drawing hands poorly, but that seems fixable.
- meroes 4y agoPlease explain why this is different than the first machine calculator. There’s already been semi Turing tests on Twitter for DALLE and it “passed”.
- randomsearch 4y agoIf people said that, they wouldn’t know anything about (conceptual) art. If you’d walked into an art school, they would have said “no, that’s automated illustration generation.” Which is what you’d get today. It’s amazing that HN thinks DALL-E is somehow an artist. This happens because most posters on the topic don’t seem to understand what art is. It’s not illustration or decoration. “Good art” is not a painting that looks particularly realistic or dramatic or colourful etc. There are artists in my family and I’ve worked with a bunch of artists myself, but you only need a cursory understanding of art to know DALL-E is automated illustration. I think DALL-E is amazing, absolutely amazing, but it is not creating art in the sense that an artist does. If you think it does, you’re probably confusing artists with illustrators.
- rendang 4y agoWell no, as the author notes, Tolstoy at least would not have categorized these products as art and he wrote over a century ago.