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[–] [email protected] 103 points 10 months ago (20 children)

AI is going to destroy art the same way Photoshop, or photography, or pre-made tubes of paints, destroyed art. It's a tool, it helps people take the idea in their head and put it in the world. And it lowers the barrier to entry, now you don't need years of practice in drawing technique to bring your ideas to life, you just need ideas.

If AI gets to a point that it can give us creative, original, art that sparks emotion in novel ways...well we probably also made a super intelligent AI and our list of problems is much different than today.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (30 children)

I think approximation is the right word here. It’s pretty cool and all and I’m looking forward how it will develop. But it’s mostly a fun toy.

I’m stoked for the moment the tech bros understand, that an AI is way better at doing their job than it is at creating art.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Billions were spent inventing and producing the calculator device.

Human calculators are now extinct.

Complex calculations are far more accessible.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Turing Incompleteness is a pathway to many powers the Computer Scientists would consider incalculable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Except they have convinced themselves that if it can’t be calculated it’s worthless.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

they're misunderstanding the reasoning for spending billions.

the reason to spend all the money to approximate is so we can remove arts and humanities majors altogether.. after enough approximation yield similar results to present day chess programs which regularly now beat humans and grand masters. their vocation is doomed to the niche, like most of humanity, eventually.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Imagine seeing writing and art as purely functional activities.

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