Thursday, July 07, 2016
The difference between robot-generated art and human-generated art is that human art tells stories.
www.slate.com: Accomplishments in artificial intelligence often suffer from the problem of moving goalposts: As soon as a machine or algorithm can accomplish something that has traditionally been the province of humans, we generally dismiss it. To replicate something with a machine is to show that it has always been mechanical, we just had the wrong machines.
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This article highlights in detail the question that so many artists, and so many types of artists are becoming increasingly wary of: Will a robot be able to do my job someday? Can a robot already do my job? As theatrical designers, parts of these questions have already been answered. The CAD software somewhat drafts scenic designs for scenic designers, costume designers are able to render their designs using online software, etc. These systems do not allow artificial intelligence actually do the creative parts of our jobs for us, but this article suggests that they might be able to in the not-so-distant future. The most worrisome part of this article is highlighted in the study in which students listening to both artificial intelligence-created music and human DJ-created music were unable to tell the difference between the two. This brings up the question of where the robots are really just that good or whether we as a human culture have become so accustomed to music and other types of art that use computers and other artificial intelligence so much that it is the new normal. Answering 'yes' to either parts of this question seems relatively unsettling, and the only easy solution for this problem is to not let A.I.-created art spread as the "normal" art form, and also to remember to go back in history when art was in no way enhanced or created with computers, robots, and/or the like.
Although we see it in many sci-fi movies as a naturally popular plot, the idea that robots may be able to replace humans in many things is something that both scares and fascinates us as a species. But one of the few things we thought set us apart from A.I.’s was creativity. The idea that an A.I. can fool people into believing they are human when it comes to making art is both amazing and terrifying to me. As someone who knows a bit about coding, it fascinates me that computers can make their own art, and to think about how complicated it must be to make a bunch of 1’s and 0’s to create art that passes as human is something amazing. As a designer, it worries me how much a computer can do in terms of art. Although this is terrifying, looking at the poems written by software, it is clear it will be hard for a computer to convey the same emotions we have to work with in theatre, and without feelings it would be impossible to do our jobs.
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