{"id":85962,"date":"2023-03-11T08:53:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T13:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=85962"},"modified":"2023-03-11T09:06:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T14:06:54","slug":"what-can-a-i-art-teach-us-about-the-real-thing-gopnik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/03\/11\/what-can-a-i-art-teach-us-about-the-real-thing-gopnik\/","title":{"rendered":"What Can A.I. Art Teach Us About the Real Thing? [Gopnik]"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Can A.I. Art Teach Us About the Real Thing?<\/strong> <\/a>— from newyorker.com by Adam Gopnik; with thanks to Mrs. Julie Bender for this resource
\nThe range and ease of pictorial invention offered by A.I. image generation are startling.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0dall-e\u00a02 system, by setting images free from neat, argumentative intentions, reducing them to responses to \u201cprompts,\u201d reminds us that pictures exist in a different world of meaning from prose.
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\nAnd the power of images lies less in their arguments than in their ambiguities. That\u2019s why the images that\u00a0dall-e<\/em>\u00a02 makes are far more interesting than the\u00a0texts that A.I. chatbots make. To be persuasive, a text demands a\u00a0point<\/em>; in contrast, looking at pictures, we can be fascinated by atmospheres and uncertainties.
\n…
\nOne of the things that thinking machines have traditionally done is sharpen our thoughts about our own thinking.<\/p>\n

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And, so, \u201cA Havanese at six pm on an East Coast beach in the style of a Winslow Homer watercolor\u201d:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\nArt work by DALL-E 2 \/ Courtesy OpenAI<\/p>\n

It is, as simple appreciation used to say, almost like being there, almost like\u00a0her<\/em>\u00a0being there. Our means in art are mixed, but our motives are nearly always memorial. We want to keep time from passing and our loves alive. The mechanical collision of kinds first startles our eyes and then softens our hearts. It\u2019s the secret system of art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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