Alison 🇦🇺
i feel a bit sorry for my oldest kid at the moment. She's an incredibly skilled artist (draw-er, paint-er) - at 12, she draws and paints better than nearly every adult I know...
but she's grappling with the reality of whether it's even worth developing her talent, given that GPT art is exploding and her skills will be obsolete in the world she's growing into.
Deborah Makarios
@rose_myrtle Machine-made pottery has been around for ages, but people still value handmade pottery. And blown glass. And hand-carved sculpture. Human-crafted may not be the only game in town any more, but it still has value.
I do hope your daughter persists in honing her craft. After all, "even the very wise cannot see all ends."
Dr Jonathan Downie
@rose_myrtle IKEA exists yet so do furniture makers. Injection molding exists, yet so do blacksmiths. The idea that AI will replace humans is a pernicious myth. There will always be space for artisans.
Richard
@rose_myrtle @multilingualchurch I think of AI like a pistol. It used to take skill to kill people, then anyone with a pistol could. It made killing easier and more ubiquitous. It used to take skill to do art, now with AI anyone can. However there will still be masters and specialists of the craft (eg:snipers) and people who can use the new tools better. Some of the skills of archery are obsolete, but some archery principles still hold true to gunplay. Or from my own experience all my dabblings with art feed into each other and the fact that there will always be (way) better artists than me doesn't stop me wanting to do art.
Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺
@rose_myrtle art will always be required. As will the artist that produce it. AI may be able to create a picture, but it's not art. It has no soul, it has no meaning.
Brother Phil 🇦🇺 au
hmmm... that how i feel about most art before AI was introduced...
Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺
@fuat2mb @rose_myrtle so what your saying is 'learn to code'. Terrible advice IMO. I realise we are all nerds here, but that does not mean everyone else is. Play to your strengths, and if art is a strength do it. Never do something like "hacking software" just because someone told you it's practical. Do it because you are good at it. The last thing we need is more incompetent software developers.
Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺
@philcolbourn @rose_myrtle I mean that is basically the definition of the modernism movement. Form for the sake of utility rather than aesthetics.
Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺
@philcolbourn @rose_myrtle are you OK buddy? You've overdosed on existentialism.
Brother Phil 🇦🇺 au
eg. where is soul? where is feeling? where is skill? where is beauty? where is a captured thought? where is a moment in time? where is evidence of God? where is life?
it's tax avoidance and speculation
Brother Phil 🇦🇺 au
Britannia didn't help me...
Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺
@philcolbourn @rose_myrtle >"Existence is primarily the problem of existence"
LOL I can see why.
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