In the past I have focused largely on the arts-side of things when it comes to AI development, but now, as the field is suddenly exploding with innumerable applications, from arts to finances, to sciences, to programming and (soon) gaming, social interaction and even "societal experience" as a whole, it seems like there is no end to this revolutionary new force. It is too tiresome to go into detail about all of this vast, and logarithmically fast, progress, so instead I thought musing on something concerning the future, and what this all means for my own project of Via Sophia. In my last post I touched on the new possibility of formatting stories into audio works, thanks to the new audio generation system. It marked an important milestone for me, personally, as for a long time I had wished for audio readings of my stories in order to experiment with new methods of storytelling, but this had always been impossible due to financial restrictions. Since the writing of last blog-post, the new Via Sophia -youtube channel is now well underway... even if beginnings are always rough at first. On the visual side of things, I have progressed considerably as well, although I haven't yet fully adopted any new AI-methods - although, I think there will still be plenty of time for that, especially as even newer possibilities will soon emerge. In the meantime, as I continue learning the technicalities of image editing and hone my own subjective accuracy, the overall project will slowly continue heading into the desired direction... especially now, with spring progressing, yielding time and space to continue the frame-project as well, in addition to digital editing. It seems like last year's experience will repeat, as I am just more mentally alert to work outside when the sun is shining and it isn't quite as low as -30 celsius in the garage. Moving on - there has been a lot of backlash for the AI development in the field of arts, as I examined in my post Reflections On the Past Year. This is understandable, but I feel like repeating my earlier stance about it - in short, every time there is any new radical innovation, there will be shock & confusion about it. People are concerned about being replaced, their jobs becoming obsolete, and so on. This is easy to understand in any manual labour field where "rough field work" is taken over by technical progress... but still I adamantly hold the "field of arts" being an exception from those 'real work' realms. In fact, I have thought a lot how to succintly put this into words, and the closest I have gotten, is:
If your art isn't strong enough to withstand the onslaught of progress, then your vision wasn't strong enough - or there wasn't one to begin with. This is to say, in other words, that if an artist isn't able to adapt (something that I consider being the most crucial aspect of an artist's personality) then the person just "did it for the money", which should be a sacrilege for any true artist, or, alternatively, the artist wasn't creative enough to sublimate the new tools for their arsenal. In either case, the loss of that particular artist would be no grand tradegy. Quite the opposite, in fact, as it only shows - or reveals - the shallow nature of that person and their vision. In this way, the emergence of AI actually acts as a burning spotlight, decimating any unworthy individual, giving way for more... well, should I say, truly artistic essences, to shine. By the way, same goes for the objective value of arts, which will be, undoubtedly, in turmoil soon... no great tradegy there either, as I've already well expressed my disdain for that whole retched business in previous blog posts. Leaving that aside for now, what about the future of all this? Well - the future is here, that much is certain by now. The velocity into singularity is accelerating, as we've witnessed in the past few months. This is to be expected, of course, as a fall into a black hole - physical or metaphysical - is never a linear, but a logarithmic one. Near future will prove what kind of changes the society will face. In my opinion, it will either be a quick apocalypse, or a quick utopia... well, at least as much an "utopia" can be reached in realistic terms. We will most certainly not see flying cars or replication machines, but we might see unparalleled productivity, societal change, and cultural shifts. All this is already happening - only the direction remains unclear. My path, nevertheless of direction, will remain the same. For Sophia.
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