Use of AI

[AtesComp]

...and that's all it will ever be. As a Computer Scientist with a PhD and having written a reinforcing machine learner, I can say that with some confidence. It may be able to do some "cool things" and help you consider some esoteric ideas. They can all be summed up as predefined category selectors (via the machine learning process) with a value scoring algorithm they attempt to "maximize" by the feedback it receives. As such, they will never replace you. Don't let the Hollywood ideology supplant actual reality.

The AI biases are very real, but are not actual human biases. They are based on the data and failures of the data scientist to understand the underlying algorithm the AI uses along with failing to understand how a feature set will produce responses and the very human bias in the training sets. This is truly a traditional Garbage In, Garbage Out issue.

So use it to help you do your work just like any tool in your tool chest, but keep in mind that so called "smart" technology doesn't have the wherewithal to even "know" what smart really means. The first rule of AI: There is no actual I in AI (but you may be fooled by it).

[aleyeah]

The first rule of AI: There is no actual I in AI (but you may be fooled by it).

I’m not sure if this makes sense, but I've heard that the computing power required for some AI tasks is so massive that we'll probably always be able to tell when something is created by an AI. For example, generative AI like Midjourney can create some interesting images, but they still often struggle with drawing hands. Even if we could fix this problem, AI might end up screwing with something else... if we really need something to look human, it would be better to have an actual human to do that.

I love AI but for some reason it kinda me believe in the concept of a "human soul". Because any AI art you see has none of it, even when it looks really good.

[TimPaul]

In general, I'm not for AI for creating art. Because it's not really creating art. it's creating the average of what people have done, and so it doesn't push things forward. There are area's that I can see it being cost effective. For example, there's a YouTube channel I watch, that's self produced, about the unexplained, mysteries, cryptoids, that kind of thing. They have started using AI. But it's a thing one person, is putting out, by himself. He makes money off of it. It makes the videos more interesting rather than just him talking, when there's no images available. If he hired artists to create images, he wouldn't be able to afford to keep doing these.

But if a person considers themselves an artist. I have to admit, once they start using AI, I lose respect for them as an artist. They go from being an artist, to being a hobbyist in my mind.

But AI isn't going away. It's just learning and starting. Thankfully I will be retired or dead when it truly becomes AI.