So apparently a combo of human and machine, building something together (something like AI generated pictures, built from human-chosen prompts) is called a “centaur.”
Chelsea, the points you make are very well reasoned. After all, what is AI other than simply a synthetic, simulated attempt at manifesting ourselves? AI is more of a concept than an actual thing. What we call AI isn't really what it purports to be. Robots and computers can process, but they can't experience, understand, be self-aware, have emotion, or be conscious. A simulation is a fictional account of reality.
Art is an organic process, and any synthetic simulation in an attempt to recreate art can never be organic. Art is to feel, to breathe, to be. Unfortunately, mankind's science fiction imaginings cause it to dream of humans becoming gods to a new civilization of coded processors. While it's a fascinating area to explore, in the end there's nothing fundamentally substantive to it.
AI likewise can't intentionally develop meaningful music, another form of art. AI has no heart, and thus no impetus to enter the world of creativity and join us. AI will always be an abstraction on the outside of reality, our little toy of grandiose expectations, but never truly communicating or interacting with us or anything else in the real world. Because at its core, AI isn't even a thing.
Chelsea, the points you make are very well reasoned. After all, what is AI other than simply a synthetic, simulated attempt at manifesting ourselves? AI is more of a concept than an actual thing. What we call AI isn't really what it purports to be. Robots and computers can process, but they can't experience, understand, be self-aware, have emotion, or be conscious. A simulation is a fictional account of reality.
Art is an organic process, and any synthetic simulation in an attempt to recreate art can never be organic. Art is to feel, to breathe, to be. Unfortunately, mankind's science fiction imaginings cause it to dream of humans becoming gods to a new civilization of coded processors. While it's a fascinating area to explore, in the end there's nothing fundamentally substantive to it.
AI likewise can't intentionally develop meaningful music, another form of art. AI has no heart, and thus no impetus to enter the world of creativity and join us. AI will always be an abstraction on the outside of reality, our little toy of grandiose expectations, but never truly communicating or interacting with us or anything else in the real world. Because at its core, AI isn't even a thing.
I would love for you to be right about that. But I’ve felt the algorithm’s influence myself.
Chelsea, curious to hear you expound on what ways you've felt the algorithm's influence, as you said. Talk about a cliff-hanger!