What an odd day! I agree with Godfrey. On January 21, 2023 6:56:38 PM PST, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com> wrote: >I dunno. Art remains art. An "AI" is just another constructed thing by which >humans have extended their abilities to influence and manipulate the world we >live in. We already use automatons to assemble our cars, our toys, our >cameras, and run a lot of our essential infrastructure. There's really little >difference between what is Art directly created by human hands and Art that is >indirectly created by the minds that humans embue their machines with. > >Until a definitive test of what constitutes machine intelligence exists, and >until machines can reliably and consistently pass that test, any Art is the >result of human artiface and mind regardless of whether it is directly or >indirectly created. > >If you want to put a simple limitation on "what is art" to say that it must be >made by human hands, well, that is just fine … but most photographs will then >be marginally not-art since we already rely upon a whole range of machines, of >varying levels of "intelligence", to produce our photographs. > >G >— >Godfrey DiGiorgi - godfreydigio...@me.com - 408.431.4601 > >"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." >--Mark Twain > >> On Jan 21, 2023, at 6:17 PM, Comcast <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> But it’s happening. AI is now writing as well. Might as well make the best >> of it. However, I’m glad I’ve reached an age where I probably won’t have to >> compete with a robot for my job. >> >> Paul >> >>> On Jan 21, 2023, at 8:45 PM, ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: >>> >>> I'm with you all th way on that , Ralf. >>> >>> ann >>> >>>> On 1/21/2023 5:47 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: >>>>> Am 21.01.23 um 22:55 schrieb Henk Terhell: >>>>> Thanks Ralph, very funny pictures. I guess this is clever photoshop work, >>>>> perhaps even with the assistance of a new AI picture generator. >>>>> More of such fantasy work will be our future. >>>> >>>> Really? The idea of living in a world where you have to keep wondering >>>> if art is genuine or AI generated gives me the creeps. >>>> >>>> Ralf >-- >%(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow >the directions. >
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