{"id":2885,"date":"2023-07-19T22:45:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T22:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearimaginations.com\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2023-07-19T23:15:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T23:15:37","slug":"random-thought-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearimaginations.com\/?p=2885","title":{"rendered":"The Black Box Behind AI Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a traditional artist who is passionate about AI art, one thing that I want to impress upon people is that AI art isn&#8217;t just about computational and algorithmic image generation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is this mysterious black box that gives rise to an emergent creativity that no one&#8211; not even the creators of the AI models themselves&#8211; fully understands&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>As someone with a science background&#8211; I hold a master&#8217;s  degree in medicinal chemistry&#8211; in addition to being a lifelong artist and art lover, I suspect that the human brain works in a similar way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything is algorithmic and mathematical at the most fundamental physical level. This applies to both natural cognition and artificial intelligence alike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To dismiss artificial intelligence and creativity as merely algorithmic doesn&#8217;t say much because we really don&#8217;t understand what is going on in the black box, just like we don&#8217;t understand what goes on in our own brains when we think or create art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At any rate, AI is far more complex than some people believe.  There are emergent capabilities, like creativity, that are at the same time very intriguing and downright frightening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a traditional artist who is passionate about AI art, one thing that I want to impress upon people is that AI art isn&#8217;t just about computational and algorithmic image generation. There is this mysterious black box that gives rise to an emergent creativity that no one&#8211; not even the creators of the AI models [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[128,127],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearimaginations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearimaginations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearimaginations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearimaginations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearimaginations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clearimaginations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearimaginations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearimaginations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearimaginations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}