I created the above image of flowers. It started with me taking a picture of flowers on the street with my cell phone camera, then digitally changing it with a graphics filter, and finally using photo correction tools to add more color and contrast–resulting in the art print you see. I never actually touched this artwork. This is an example of an artist taking advantage of “AI” in their work!
“AI”-ASSISTED ART – Using “AI” digital filters and some other digital tools, my photo of flowers turned into a fairly decent art print, just the way I envisioned it.
Art is, and always will be, the human idea behind a visual image. If the artist never actually touches the artwork, because of technology, that’s beside the point, they are still the creator, the artist… getting the visual result they want. “Digital Art Making” is a person purposefully directing and guiding an image through a series of decisions, directions, and visual imaging concepts, using digital processes until he or she is pleased and stops manipulating the image, declaring the work finished!
Chat GPT and all “AI”-created results at a minimum, take a human thought (an idea) to be put into written, verbal, or visual instructions–which are inputted into the computer and its programs, starting the augmented AI creative process! FIRST takes a human to have the idea and initiate the work.
“AI”-ASSISTED FOOD – The best food for humans is organic, nutritious, and delicious. As the saying goes, “Great food is prepared with love.” Any new robotic kitchen equipment, helper, or recipe finder (mixer, chopper, automated cooker, robo-cleaner, or burger flipper) does not contribute any emotion, whatsoever, to a meal prepared, with love, by a chef or home cook! Good requires ❤️!
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(Facts)
“AI” IS IN THE NEWS sending the Google Trends index soaring to a top trend of early 2023. (History) In 2015 Sam Altman and Elon Musk started a nonprofit company named Open AI, to promote friendly artificial intelligence. In 2018 Musk resigned from the board to concentrate on his many business projects, although he continued his support as a donor. Then in 2019, Open.ai switched to a for-profit business model with Microsoft being the principal funding partner. In 2020 Open.ai announced they were creating an app called “Chat GPT”, which was trained as a more powerful search engine than google, being that it also performed tasks after finding the information you requested. The app learns by scraping the world wide web, for knowledge and resources. The result is a “large language response” (in any language) to search prompts (questions), by the user, who is trying to solve some problem.
The simple answer: “Chat GPT” is a search engine that scans tons of information, from websites and online information worldwide, then combines and summarizes that knowledge delivering written or visual solutions/answers to the original prompt. In simple terms “Chat GPT” is the next-gen Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, etc. search engine that goes far beyond finding sources… to accomplishing various tasks using the information found.
This past November 2022, Open.ai released their “Chat GPT” app (FREE to the world) and the democratization of this knowledge resource made it the fastest mass acceptance of any product in history. Two months after its release, “Chat GPT” had over 100 million users and the numbers have expanded exponentially since that time.
Many worry that this Artificial Intelligence app will quickly replace a huge number of jobs, including middle-management and creative disrupting the workforce.
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(Opinion)
I think it is time to take a breath, relax, and realize that all “AI”, including this new long-form written “AI”, like “Chat GPT”, is very book smart–but it’s more like hiring a brilliant intern to WORK FOR YOU than it is a robot coming to TAKE YOUR JOB. Yes, “AI” probably will make some businesses more efficient to the point some lower-level jobs will be eliminated. Keep in mind that computers need humans (“AI” managers and editors) to propose the prompts and to review the “AI” generated answers for clarity and correctness, plus to determine if the “draft solution” is an appropriate solution.
Our focus here at ARTS&FOOD® is concerned with delivering emotional pleasure to our subscribers. One undeniable fact about computers is that they are machines, which produce solutions based on logic and efficiency, using no emotions to cloud the logic. Even if they are programmed to understand what emotions are and why humans have them, computers will never “FEEL” human emotions. Through my life experience and using logic, I believe we have an energy (aura) that defines us–we call this a soul and our emotions reside within our soul.
The difference between “knowing something” and “feeling something” is huge. Feeling is. an organic experience, not a mechanical one!
Personally, I will be embracing these new Artificial Intelligence tools and will stay focused on keeping our ARTS and FOOD information curated and delivering authentic feelings, full of emotions.
In every art form; visual; written; culinary; musical; etc.; top of mind will be how it makes the reader/recipient feel… is the content full of emotion… THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IN ART and FOOD.
CONCLUSION: “AI” (Artificial Intelligence) is more like another mechanical pencil or food processor than it is a human being. It has been invented to make our work easier. more precise, and go faster.
I am optimistic, but right or wrong__there is no putting this “AI” genie back in the bottle!
Until Later,
Jack Atkinson
