"It’s largely a cultural-mining operation with a clever assembly line on top."
One might argue that this is essentially what's happening in the human brain anyway; most of what we would call real "art" is just remixing culture. It looks like the graphic arts are now going to follow a similar trajectory as music: real value will be created…
"It’s largely a cultural-mining operation with a clever assembly line on top."
One might argue that this is essentially what's happening in the human brain anyway; most of what we would call real "art" is just remixing culture. It looks like the graphic arts are now going to follow a similar trajectory as music: real value will be created through interactive experiences rather than the final product itself, and only those artists who focus on the performance and experience of their craft will be able to support themselves independently.
You make the point that had occurred to me. If all A.I. is really guilty of is mining previous experience and engaging in acts of reassembly, then the result is 'artifice,' all right, because that's exactly what we do. Our dependencies have identical set extensions. If they're the Achilles heel of A.I.'s pretensions to creativity, they must be ours as well.
"It’s largely a cultural-mining operation with a clever assembly line on top."
One might argue that this is essentially what's happening in the human brain anyway; most of what we would call real "art" is just remixing culture. It looks like the graphic arts are now going to follow a similar trajectory as music: real value will be created through interactive experiences rather than the final product itself, and only those artists who focus on the performance and experience of their craft will be able to support themselves independently.
You make the point that had occurred to me. If all A.I. is really guilty of is mining previous experience and engaging in acts of reassembly, then the result is 'artifice,' all right, because that's exactly what we do. Our dependencies have identical set extensions. If they're the Achilles heel of A.I.'s pretensions to creativity, they must be ours as well.