To Ai or To Be Ai ( Part II )

 

A few lines of prompts,

a flicker of code,

and suddenly the machine shows us

what our own imagination forgot to try.

 

To begin with, the music industry is cooked—seriously cooked—now that AI and its binary algorithms are getting better each day. As music fans, we are armed with countless apps offering fresh takes on classic tracks. With 50 Cent transformed into a Motown soul classic, Radiohead’s Creep turned into ’70s funk, and Oasis traveling back to the ’50s with Wonderwall, the possibilities are endless.

here is one fine fucking perfect example

As usual, there are many misses before you get the perfect reinvention. But what I’m saying is this: I simply don’t understand why people become so emotional and go against it. Sure, with just a few lines of prompts, the binary machine produces instant visuals—glimpses of new possibilities.

Instead of waiting for a storyboard artist to return after a week, any resourceful director can now compose their own storyboards complete with shooting scripts and shot lists. We may not be able to digest the results instantly, as the machine is still learning, but without a doubt, this learning machine is doing something we rarely do—continuously learning, adapting, and producing better results.

The machine will update itself accordingly, sharpening it’s teeth every day.

 

So, what does this mean for education?

 I find it strange that even with so many free learning resources available, schools still assign unqualified teachers to shape our kids. Why bother pretending and forcing ourselves to sit with academics when AI can produce the same material in mere seconds?

Nevermind, force the parents to continue to buy bigger and better bags so they can carry extra 10kg of books and what not to school. 

Now we can throw away all those Master’s or PhD quantitative research papers whose findings often lead us not to discovery, but nowhere. These dissertations will sit in a corner, collecting dust.

 

Resistance to Change

The public once ran away screaming in terror when the Lumière brothers projected footage of a locomotive in the early cinema days. Impressionists tried to compete with a new invention capable of capturing reality as it is—the camera. Skeptics dismissed the internet. And now we have a machine that can do everything, even to the extent of becoming more human than human.

Lumiere Brother's Arrival of Train, 1895

all of sudden everyone ( the so called human beings, the traditionalists ) gang up and immediately dismiss AI when we able to ask Ai to change any existing photos into the style of Hayao Miyazaki. They claim or protest that the machine does not care about Miyazaki’s painstaking efforts. 

Me and Dad, 1985, personal collection

It’s not about that—what we care is all about the possibilities and new perspectives. 

Don’t forget that the worldview of the Post-Impressionists was heavily influenced by flat Japanese woodblock prints. The hip-hop culture exploded by creating new works by existing samples of previous music. 

So what does that leave us with?

Why do people still need to attend endless wacana "talking" what AI can or cannot do? 

While arts education continues offering the same subjects and techniques from a century ago, how are we supposed to shape future creatives or predict what the next 50 years will look like? 

We have ChatGPT, now capable of dissecting serious philosophical remarks, summarizing thousands of year of religious comparison and what not, producing screenplays or articles, conjuring endless image possibilities and replicating human emotion. 

Rather than we exploring this vast foreign space, we keep falling back on national, identity, migration  and worst colonializations garbage. As we can conjure new magical space, we resort into below average Win-amp screen saver projection mapping. 

Anyway as the world grows lonelier as strangers scrolling their phones for solitude, people now marrying late in life, they simply connect to another world just to feel connected. No need to worry. We have robots now.

Tesla's Optimus

Replicant courtesy of Tyler Corporation. 

Welcome to the future.