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Comment Re:You make it sound negative (Score 1) 86

Absolutely agree. Furthermore, I see the "democratization" of art to low-effort stuff that anyone can make to be a bad thing. It's not art in my opinion: it's amusement, shallow entertainment, and strengthens the culture of shallowness that pervades advanced western civilization. It is the promotion of the fast-food version of art that just makes everything worse in my opinion.

Comment Re:Since when do we care? (Score 1) 283

Whoa have you even been to university? There are scholarships just for women, even job positions that are women-only. And women in STEM? The ones that do make it are definitely treated as special. Maybe such things are designed to bridge the gap and it makes sense, but it's not very encouraging to men either whether it's rational or not.

Comment Main thing (Score 1) 157

The main thing this ignores is that in a healthy society, art is used not just for visual stimulation but also for communication between human beings. AI art may have the former, but it will never have the latter. If AI visual art becomes more appealing, it only shows the sick nature of modern society.

Comment Exactly right (Score 1) 143

You are right, and it's clear if you look at the bigger picture. Coding is obviously fun, and traditionally companies have offered money and the fun experience of coding in return for a useful product. That fun was part of the reason why software projects work decently well.

But there's no real reason for fun to be a prerequisite for a person to create good programs. If corporations can automate a sufficient critical mass of the task of programming away to machines, then it becomes more of a rote janitorial job. And that's the final purpose of AI: to reduce us to mental compute units in a vast network to do the last 5% of what AI cannot do in an advanced network whose only purpose is to further advanced technology.

AI can't do that yet, and much of programming is still fun. In fact, for many, AI is fun. It's quite amusing, I'll admit even though I hate AI. But the truth is, that fun is only to get us to adopt it, train it, and make it better. Once it gets good enough (and it IS good enough in some cases already) it will take that fun away because it will be necessary in daily life, and thus the fun that was needed to keep us advancing it is no longer necessary to keep it running.

In what I am saying, AI sounds like it has a will. It doesn't really, at least in the traditional sense, but it operates as though it does, just like any complex system with multiple feedback mechanisms and a basic evolutionary system of differential survival.

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