Everywhere we look, we're confronted now with AI. Or at least the claims of AI. Your WORD document offers to draft something for you. Your GMail promises to better organize your inbox. Your Reels and TikToks are flooded with annoying ludicrous AI video. AI promises to change everything. Even if you don't want it to. But there probably isn't anyone in creative industries not focused on the … [Read more...]
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Making the Creative Turn: Is Using AI Cheating?
At the newspaper I worked at in the 1980s, there was the story of the longtime reporter who came in to work the day after computer terminals were installed in the newsroom. He went to his desk, where, in the spot where his typewriter had sat for decades, a giant new monitor with a blinking green cursor awaited. He looked at the screen, picked up his bag, and said “I’m done,” never to … [Read more...]
Creativity Versus Skills
Artists often conflate creativity with skill. It's not surprising. The ranks of successful artists have largely been confined to those who not only have compelling creativity and vision but also have or have access to the specialized skills required to execute on that creativity. So how much of a piece of art is creativity and how much is skill? For the sake of argument, let's say it's perhaps … [Read more...]
How Digital AI Twins could Transform how We Make Art
For all of the explosion of data in the past couple of decades, it's remarkable how disconnected and crudely measured much of the world around us still is. Weather forecasts, for example, have improved enormously in recent years, yet still aren't reliably accurate. The problem has been three-fold -- not enough ability to measure, incomplete data, and not enough computing power to make sense of the … [Read more...]