Why AI Will Never Rival Human Creativity
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Predictive mechanisms preclude the originality needed for true art.
Study for Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Pablo Picasso, 1907. (Photo by Luiz Souza/NurPhoto via Getty Images.) AI might put artists out of business. It will not, however, replace them. It will not—cannot—make good art, great art: true art. Which is to say, original art. This is, I know, a dangerous prediction (“dangerous prediction”: a redundancy). But unlike the techies and pundits, in their glorious ignorant smugness, I have some sense of what art is and how it is created. AI operates by making high-probability choices: the most likely next word, in the case of written texts.…
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