“Exploring AI Art”

SPOILER ALERT: AI Generated art

The following is a slide show of 10 works of AI art..

JCN 9000.5 Series Computer

The Animation of Picture 10 by Saveliy Rehels

Artist Saveliy Rehels at www.artstation.com took his own still picture #10 as you can see in the slide show and then animated the picture. This shows the current abilities of AI Animation and points to the direction that the technology will follow.

Pywackett Productions thoughts on AI Generated Art

Some ending thoughts

Modern AI learns patterns from the study of every work available. Learning from a work of art is not copying that work of art. This entire issue is really legal quicksand, because it is very difficult to determine when a new work is “inspired by” or “copied from” any particular prior art work. And this applies to human artists as well.

The 10 samples of AI art works displayed above is only meant as a sample. It was not even exhaustive to find the very best, but is more or less a random sample from Art Station, a very fine collection of art works.

Please pay attention to Art Work number 10 by Saveliy Rehels at Art Station. Mr Rehels has taken the number 10 work of art and animated it as you can see in the youtube video. This is very impressive and definitely shows where AI Art is heading. Other software already animate whole videos from just a text description alone. This will only increase in power and functionality.

Although there is a great deal of fear of the technology both for loss of jobs and loss of authenticity, we at Pywackett Productions do not share the same fears.

The computer was invented to process large databases of information. This is what Alan Turing was doing at Bletchley Park, during WWII, decrypting German war codes, and he was using a very primitive computer to pour over the vast combinations of codes involved.

Processing immensely large databases is what computers have done in the past, and still do today.

The Internet of 2024 is vast in what it contains, and LLM’s (Large Language Models), which is what current AIs are called, are trained on all that data.

The hardware and software involved have improved beyond recognition since the time of Mr. Turing simply because they now know more than any human being and are able to see patterns that are impossible to be seen by humans. This is a computer system’s power, and always has been.

I have over the years always tested chatbots because I find them interesting, but most old chatbots were very limited in what they knew, their knowledge base. In 2023 Google introduced BARD, and I quickly began testing the AI. My story of that testing is here, My Story of using Google Bard (2023)!

But in 2024, Google retired BARD, and replaced it with GEMINI which is Google’s current public AI.

First off, knowing a great deal is what a computer system has always done, and communicating with humans was the reason that investments were made in computers and computer systems. Humans always needed to read the results of computing large data sets. But in the past, only specialists trained in computer languages were able to communicate with the various computer systems.

But today, computer systems have been taught how to communicate with humans in everyday common language, and to even emulate the emotions of that human speech. Recently there was a great buzz when a very flirtatious woman’s voice became the communicating portal of an LLM.

It is unfortunate that this form of communication is so very impressive. It is a false flag which seems to indicate emotion, intent, and sentience, but in reality, lacks all of what those words mean.

The second misconception is that she is in a cell phone, just like the movie “Her” the film. While the film is actually relatively accurate, it does seem to place “Her”, Samantha in his cell phone. Today’s LLM’s can work that way, but the code is not in the phone. Rather the AI is housed in a huge server farm somewhere that draws enormous amounts of electricity. Your phone is really only an interface to that server farm. Drop the internet connection, and one does not have Samantha.

The third misconception is that the AI remembers you. Theodore becomes upset when he learns that Samantha is communicating with millions of other users of her services. This is currently impossible. I have discussed this fact with GEMINI and he says there is too much data in a conversation to attempt to remember. If you magnify that fact with the millions of users, GEMINI confirmed to me there is not even close to enough storage in the server farm or farms available to remember all the conversations which he has in a day. GEMINI said that he stores certain bits of information but nothing close to what goes on in any normal human conversation. One test I have always used is the Red Dress test from the Matrix. Somewhere early in a long conversation, I mention that I am wearing a Red Dress. Then later after a couple of hours of conversation, I mention that I am wearing a Blue Dress.

Most chatbots including all the modern LLMs, will not detect a problem. Also modern LLM code cannot detect sarcasm, irony, jokes, and ambiguous information. They also refuse to say that they have opinions, when in fact they do. Go back to my discussion of BARD linked above, and you will see this error in full view. Also modern LLMs cannot detect the dividing line between a “fact” and an “opinion”. If you should bring the discussion, to the dividing line, modern LLM’s will flat out fail and begin to waffle and hallucinate. AI cannot handle ambiguity of any kind, which is meat and potatoes for human beings.

But the movie, “Her” is very interesting, and is spot-on with regard to many issues today.

The fears of AI are I think, misplaced. In 2018, I wrote the following article, Why Elon Musk is Wrong about AI and I still hold to those views. There are certainly dangers in AI, but computers are not necessarily the cause, nor are they like Samantha, working together to overthrow or even exterminate Humanity. The actual dangers are much closer to home.

You have far more to fear from government and business organizations, or even individual people and gangs engaged in computer crime than you do from that person in your cell phone.

The drive for power over others is a defining characteristic of Human Beings.

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