Art is dead

[Sean Hayden]

I suspect the latter - with no actual knowledge of the programming involved. Artistic creation assumes some sort of inspiration - often out of the blue - a confluence of skill, ability, imagination and flare. Programming an engine to win a game - however complex - doesn't seem to me to be that at all.

Unless of course they can now code for imagination and flare..

That's a tempting position to take. But we will have to take it with our fingers crossed, knowing that AI may still cross the next gap, and then the next, and...

[cronus]

There's a lot of hubris in AI research at the moment on account of a breakthrough that might make it better at doing a particular task with big data. Basically a powered-up expert system that's been around for decades. Could make it better at randomly creating in the style of a artist whose works are numerous like a Picasso, and even then a human would be required to choose between 'interesting' and banal cos the AI wouldn't know.

[pErvinalia]

Like randomly creating posts like yours? But then you'd be a redundant system, Crump.

[cronus]

Like randomly creating posts like yours? But then you'd be a redundant system, Crump.

Everything is random. Some don't know this yet.

[laklak]

No. God plans it all, down to the last belch and fart. Not a sparrow falls.

[cronus]

No. God plans it all, down to the last belch and fart. Not a sparrow falls.

'God holds the trump card but it takes a china-man to let wind in the proper manner' - that's a ancient welsh proverb.

[laklak]

The Chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. - Walter Sobchak

[pErvinalia]