I am sure you have seen the cute little A.I. pictures of mystical animals or children on Facebook or you have read the answers to questions you ask Google when you ask the search for the information you need. You may have even read a book description that was generated by Artificial Intelligence. Maybe that book didn’t even have an author and was written by AI as well. I am sure you have seen the AI that is showing up everywhere.
From the new search on Facebook, Google AI, Azure AI by Microsoft, to Jasper is said to “help journalists write more efficiently.” Oh, guess how I found that little bit of information on Fasper! It was the Google AI search engine. A.I.over just the last few weeks has popped up everywhere! You can’t miss it.
So, is AI replacing artists now, or will it? It could but this writer and artist is hoping it does not. Let’s start by talking about what Artificial Intelligence actually does and is.
What Exactly Is A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)
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IBM defines Artificial Intelligence as a technology that allows computers to simulate human capabilities such as intelligence and problem-solving.
These A.I. computers or programs use algorithms to “learn” processes similar to what happens in the human brain. This often involves human interaction editing or teaching the program what it needs to do in certain situations as well as feeding or guiding the information for the machine or program to run.
For example, when you search the question, let’s say “how does A.I. work?” the algorithm searches the internet for answers to that question and then formulates an answer based on what it found including a link(s) to where it found the information it provides. Here’s what was found with that question,
Artificial Intelligence And The Arts
First I would like to start by sharing the definition of Art.
Encyclopedia.com defines art as “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power”.
Britanica.com has two definitions. “1. Something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings. 2. Works created by artists : paintings, sculptures, etc., that are created to be beautiful or to express important ideas or feelings.”
Fine Art
I think you can see some keywords here. Human, artist, and feeling are the words that jump out at me. Applications do not have feelings and they definitely are not human. Giving a description to a computer and having it search and put together information or objects for a picture just does not fit into the definition of art.
Does this flow over into graphic artists? No, I do not feel it does. I have friends who create amazing digital art. Actually, my daughter, who designed the cover of my first novel, used a computer to do so. She used a pen and applications in order to create the digital file that is, in fact, the art on the cover of my book.
Graphic artists are a new asset to the art world. However, they use their skill, their imaginations, and their feelings in order to create. They don’t just tell a computer what to do in order to piece together something from other sources to call art.
Written Art
What can I say here. Wow. It is amazing to me that not only is plagiarism an issue for publishers and writers in all areas of the industry, now A.I. is a big issue as well. There are so many “writers” of all kinds now trying to pass off A.I. written articles, even entire books, as theirs. Not just people, there are companies are at fault as well. I am sure you heard a little about the Writer’s Strike over this last year. The humans won for now.
There are many applications out there now that will not only come up with ideas but write the text for you. They think they won’t get caught, but they do. The text lacks personality and feeling and often feels awkward as well.
Reading about what others think about A.I., I feel this article summed it up well. Mike Feibus on USA Today pointed out that A.I. does have limitations and these limitations will keep us humans on the “top of the writing food chain.” After all, A.I. can only copy what we already do as it barrows from previously written or published scrips. That makes this writer feel a little more secure but only a little.
Conclusion
So, I think we are safe for now as long as AI-generated art continues to produce things like celebrities kneeling backward on a church pew with five fingers and a thumb on the hand facing the camera or a female wildcat with glowing kittens riding on her back. There is some time yet but it is something we need to monitor in the future. The Writers Guild of America won one for us all. Where will we have to fight next?
AI has it’s place. The Arts is not where it needs to be.
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