Here's the thing I have been musing over. It may just be my lack of understanding how AI works these days, but... all of these tools are fed - "trained" if you will - preferably large quantities of inputs - images, text, etc. The output is quite dependent on the inputs (GIGO) and clearly derivative, which makes sense. Yet this also means you are not really going to get anything original. So let's say it kills the arts and nobody is creating new images anymore. Will we end up stuck in the artistic norms of the past? I recognize most art is somewhat derivative. But not all of it. Someone occasionally breaks the mold and their style catches on and becomes a movement and a new norm. This extends to many areas, beyond the arts.
There are people who believe machines will one day achieve sentience, the singularity will arrive and the stuff of sci-fi becomes reality. Personally I am not sure sentience will happen. It may appear that way, but that conversation almost inevitably reaches conclusions arising from your philosophy on the nature of life and existence itself. We can still have a singularity without sentience though, in fact I would say we are pretty close to that now. And that has huge implications, whether we manage to maintain control of it or not. We really need to have a close look (worldwide) at what is happening and whether it should proceed unchecked. Not to mention the use of said tools for ill intentions. There have already been AI experiments between instances that were shut down because they were spinning out of control.
Perhaps I am veering too far off topic for a photography site, though. Maybe I generated this post. How would you tell?
There are people who believe machines will one day achieve sentience, the singularity will arrive and the stuff of sci-fi becomes reality. Personally I am not sure sentience will happen. It may appear that way, but that conversation almost inevitably reaches conclusions arising from your philosophy on the nature of life and existence itself. We can still have a singularity without sentience though, in fact I would say we are pretty close to that now. And that has huge implications, whether we manage to maintain control of it or not. We really need to have a close look (worldwide) at what is happening and whether it should proceed unchecked. Not to mention the use of said tools for ill intentions. There have already been AI experiments between instances that were shut down because they were spinning out of control.
Perhaps I am veering too far off topic for a photography site, though. Maybe I generated this post. How would you tell?
