RE: AI art will turn you into Pavlov's dog

Of course companies are looking at how they can make more money from their online platforms, but they still have to provide a compelling experience for users. A lot of that can be about how many use it as the network effect will keep them there. It will be interesting to see if changes at Twitter will actually drive some away.

The 'AI' art is interesting in that it is understanding what people ask for on some level to produce the images. It does seem to mostly recycle existing images for that and sometimes gets basic stuff wrong, like giving people extra fingers. It may not fully understand what a person looks like. Of course it will only get better as the algorithms are tweaked and fed more data. In a few years the results will improve dramatically.

Human art can be more original as it does not just work from what others have produced before. It also uses the whole life experience of the artist. Using mistakes to innovate is common and I've done it myself in my music. We cannot always say why we did something or what makes it good and so that is hard to program into a machine.

I have heard of art produced by animals such as chimps and elephants selling for crazy money. Do they understand what they are doing? I believe they have some level of intelligence that may be quite different to how we think. I'm not sure if 'machine intelligence' can be thought of in the same ways and it would create ethical issues if a machine is considered self-aware. This is heavy stuff for philosophers to deal with. People will keep working on it anyway.