CategoryCreativity
AI Can’t Do Jazz Because Spontaneity Is at Jazz’s Core
AI “artists”—in all the forms presently available — merely replay their programmingAs Ted Gioia makes clear in his discussion of jazz, swirling a bit of randomness into the mix will not help.
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Could AI Authentically Create Anything?
Brendan Dixon: The first question posed to me as an artist was,“What are you trying to say?”Du Sautoy believes that AI will “in the distant future” achieve consciousness. For that, we have no evidence. It is a statement of religious faith akin to that of Anthony Levandowski's AI Church.
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What One Thing Do AI, Evolution, and Entrepreneurship All Need?
They all need an input of creativity to make things happen.Programs for AI and evolution share the limitation that nothing creative happens without the guidance of a programmer. And a thriving economy based on creative entrepreneurship is one of the things that cannot be automated.
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Why AI Fails To Actually Create Things
Only one of the traits du Sautoy suggests is an essential part of creativityDu Sautoy’s fourth trait—“originality of a truly independent nature”—is a useful part of the definition of creativity. It is, however, the one trait that he admits is missing from AI’s “creative” attempts
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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