The Underwhelming Creativity of AI
The technology regurgitates, it does not createArtists have nothing to fear from AI if, as philosopher of mind Sean Dorrance Kelly says, creativity does not follow computational rules.
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Creativity Does Not Follow Computational Rules
A philosopher muses on why machines are not creativeHe worries about something quite different from the usual robots-are-coming scare: “It is entirely possible that we will come to treat artificially intelligent machines as so vastly superior to us that we will naturally attribute creativity to them. Should that happen, it will not be because machines have outstripped us. It will be because we will have denigrated ourselves.”
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STEM Education 8: Help Create Creativity
Creativity diminishes with age, in part because we dig ourselves into ruts that limit our field of view.An aging STEM nerd digs more and deeper ruts and creative thinking becomes more and more difficult. For this reason, I remain tolerant of graduate students with new and seemingly wacky ideas.
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Does AI Art Spell the End of the Artist’s Way of Life?
An AI-produced painting sold at auction for $432,500. But is it a trend or just a novelty?Rather than announce that human artists are now doomed, software engineer Ben Dixon interviewed a number of them and came away with a rather different picture, that “AI-generated art will improve, but artistic creativity will remain a human discipline.”
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6: AI Can Even Exploit Loopholes in the Code!
AI adopts a solution in an allowed set, maybe not the one you expected