This is the equivalent of “you should learn to do all types of complex math shit in your head because you won’t always have a calculator with you”. Except you can now whip out your phone.
Imagine trying to convince someone to spend 5 years of their life learning to paint, instead of just waiting for technology to improve. It’s a bit like encouraging people to take apprenticeships in chimney sweeping or lessons on how to be a royal jester. Do what makes you happy, sure - but be prepared to do it as a hobby not as a job. Especially if the machines can outbid you.
Some jobs become obsolete as time passes. If artists are next to be this century’s town criers, that’s okay. We’ll all become obsolete sooner or later.
That is in no way the same thing and I said nothing about being allowed to do anything.
If you do not look at a painting like A Starry Night and feel the human connection between you and Van Gogh’s awe at the night sky or look at the painting in the cave in Lascaux and understand that you are looking through the eyes of someone who lived thousands of years ago, I don’t know what to say. I feel sorry for you, I guess.
There is no connection like that with AI-generated art because there is no human or emotion or even eyes involved. It’s not the same and it never will be the same unless AI become as aware and able to understand the universe as we are. I won’t be holding my breath.
Over it? No. I’m not in the habit of destroying works of art. But if in a few hundred years it needs to be restored, I’d prefer an AI does it instead of a human.
Is your stance that art can only be done by humans?
Before the electronic calculators, “computer” was a career. Much like today, the scientists and engineers would write out the equations that need to be solved, but then pass the work to a “computer” to plug in actual numbers. The difference is modern computers are electronic and historic computers were humans who did arithmetic as a career.
But those scientists and engineers still knew how to do math, even if they were offloading that work most of the time. The point being, it’s still important to learn how to do math, even if you won’t be the one actually doing it most of the time, and this has been true for hundreds of years, well before electronic calculators and computers.
This is the equivalent of “you should learn to do all types of complex math shit in your head because you won’t always have a calculator with you”. Except you can now whip out your phone.
Imagine trying to convince someone to spend 5 years of their life learning to paint, instead of just waiting for technology to improve. It’s a bit like encouraging people to take apprenticeships in chimney sweeping or lessons on how to be a royal jester. Do what makes you happy, sure - but be prepared to do it as a hobby not as a job. Especially if the machines can outbid you.
Some jobs become obsolete as time passes. If artists are next to be this century’s town criers, that’s okay. We’ll all become obsolete sooner or later.
You mean like they had to do for virtually all of human history? I can imagine it quite well.
This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. As if art was meaningless to humanity.
I suppose you would have an AI paint over the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
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That is in no way the same thing and I said nothing about being allowed to do anything.
If you do not look at a painting like A Starry Night and feel the human connection between you and Van Gogh’s awe at the night sky or look at the painting in the cave in Lascaux and understand that you are looking through the eyes of someone who lived thousands of years ago, I don’t know what to say. I feel sorry for you, I guess.
There is no connection like that with AI-generated art because there is no human or emotion or even eyes involved. It’s not the same and it never will be the same unless AI become as aware and able to understand the universe as we are. I won’t be holding my breath.
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You compared art to doing laundry, so…
Over it? No. I’m not in the habit of destroying works of art. But if in a few hundred years it needs to be restored, I’d prefer an AI does it instead of a human.
Is your stance that art can only be done by humans?
No, my stance is that you are trivializing art and its significance and its connection to our humanity.
Ah, okay.
Before the electronic calculators, “computer” was a career. Much like today, the scientists and engineers would write out the equations that need to be solved, but then pass the work to a “computer” to plug in actual numbers. The difference is modern computers are electronic and historic computers were humans who did arithmetic as a career.
Here’s the relevant Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)
But those scientists and engineers still knew how to do math, even if they were offloading that work most of the time. The point being, it’s still important to learn how to do math, even if you won’t be the one actually doing it most of the time, and this has been true for hundreds of years, well before electronic calculators and computers.