... showing us
this:
But that is
not incredible. Everything is credible now that we know A.I. does things like that. It's no more incredible than movies, which amazed people at one time, and in fact, right now, what A.I. did to those famous paintings is
worse than any random few seconds in a well-made movie because it is in low taste and it is a step down from the artist's vision, which froze one moment and presented it to signify everything in the surrounding moments. Unfreezing that moment is utterly banal, and it misunderstands what the painting offers, which is to activate our mind about whatever might relate to that picture.
A.I. steps in and generates the next few seconds in the most obvious and superficial way. Let's have the Girl with a Pearl Earring break out of her subtle expression and into a modern-day movie-star smile. There, now, you are relieved from contemplating the mystery of human emotion and entertained by the comfortable reminder that when young beautiful women smile they are simply fantastic.
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At some point technology will get so good you can just tell the ai, “make me a social media platform in the style of twitter” and it will do it.
Probably the worst one is the Van Gough. Popping in cartoon characters. LOL.
Rule 34 applies. Be prepared to be apalled.
Not just a modern day movie star smile - she was turned into a fucking monster.
My phone already does that Harry Potter thing of having the pictures move a bit and I find it annoying.
Chopin 2nd nocturne, taking repeats.
I thought some of that was cool. Tho -the Vermeer pearl ear-ring girl smile- NOT at all realistic. Probably not many straight-teeth/white-toothed smiles back then.
Movies are bad because story telling is bad. Hollywood is woke leftist lecture central. Even when Hollywood isn't basting us in the juices of their propaganda, - there is nothing fresh to offer. No amount of AI can help them.
Lame stale super-hero re-runs, cliche syrup, woke-lectures, over-the-top violence, and re-runs with yet more tired politically laced narratives.
"Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it." - CaptainSQL
I just glad they didn't include The Scream.
We are already in a multi decade experiment to change reality, history, and public opinion via the media. AI has already shown that it can do Winston Smiths job at the Ministry of Truth faster, and more efficiently.
Well said. Elon is a bit too enamored with some of his toys, AI and FSD for one or two…
Renoir boating party, it violated his all women's faces the same rule with a blonde lady that turns up seated in the distance on the left at the very end.
It appears that the boy watering plants has more water coming out than the cans can hold. Some forty years ago a genius named Doug Lenat got interested in the problem of teaching "common sense" to AI. Things like water taking the shape of its container, gravity pulling in a downward direction, the sort of stuff we humans pretty much learn by age two. The point is that AI will not learn these basic, "common sense" facts from scanning literature because humans don't have to tell each other that, for instance, letting go of an item will cause it to fall (unless you're on board the ISS) or pouring water from one container into another will cause the water to change its shape but not its volume or weight. Among his famous quotes is the following: "Intelligence is ten million rules."
And IMAO between birth and kindeergarten we've learned about half of them.
The biggest and most lucrative application of this will be in the Porn industry. Unfortunately.
Lighten up, Fra...ANN...cis!
Manet's Olympia sniffs her armpit, and the black servant says, "Peeyew!"
AI image generation and text-to-video are in their infancy. I’m experimenting with both. These are tools. Humans will improve at using them, and the tools themselves will improve.
I immediately thought of the finale of Raiders of the Lost Ark where the beautiful ghostly maiden turned into a snarling demon skull.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0APF3SO9tqE&t=175s
AI can play Napoleon and the Girl with the Pearl Earring cheaper than Joaquin Phoenix or Scarlett Johansson can.
I did think the clip was incredible, though, and I usually don't like things. It suggests the ability to create an entire virtual environment like that of 19th century Paris. Artistically, it may not be worth much, but as sheer spectacle, it would be impressive -- and this is an age of spectacle and sensation and immediacy, not of artistic masterpieces.
Well said.
Amusing, but still has a ways to go - like the modern cars driving down the street in the caillebotte painting
It's early. Remember that this is a guy who crashed a lot of rockets along the way.
Not that it makes him an aesthete. It isn't a normal thing to "get" Bruckner, for example.
"The biggest and most lucrative application of this will be in the Porn industry."
Connect it to your robotic shorts and completely surrender your humanity. Good luck!
I don't think AI could think up a Dali painting, and AI would probably have difficulty animating some of Picasso's portraits.......Still painters have been around for centuries, and AI is ten minutes old. Miracles are boring, but AI is miraculous......Years ago I remember seeing DeMille's Ten Commandments. It had a wow factor. One used to go to movies for the spectacle, but nowadays the spectacular is commonplace. The last few Marvel movies were kind of boring. One thing though, the fights are getting better. You didn't use to be able to slam your opponent to a concrete floor and twist his arm off. CGI allows you to do those things. The arterial blood spurts are quite realistic.
"Connect it to your robotic shorts and completely surrender your humanity. Good luck!"
thanks for the AM laugh.
Serious Questions:
With Porn as it is Today; what purpose is there, for regular women?
With AI as it will be Tomorrow; what purpose is there, for Actual porn stars?
Humanity is DOOMED.. Humanity will self extinct
This reminds me of the way CGI ruined movies. It used to be interesting to watch scenes done with traditional special effects. Watch Fredric March turn from Dr. Jeckyll to Mr. Hyde in 1931 — here. But who cares about these transformations and difficult feats now that anything can be realized in what looks like photography? I really don't care what they've thought up to show.
for The Majority of today's young women; their hopes and dreams are to become an rich Only Fans girl..
Those hopes and dreams are trashed by AI
Elon Musk is a Peter Pan — a permanent boy, jumping about, excited about toys.
Would humbly submit that the benefit will be when people who think outside the box (like you Ann) can have their ideas put into visual reality (aka the above suggestion) as opposed to just corporate blandness seen in linked video.
Those kids are on your lawn again.
The Elon Musk painting animations reminds me of the newspapers in the Harry Potter movies.
I clicked the link. Watched the video before reading this post. This post sums up exactly my response too. It is interesting in a pedestrian way but it also is deceptively real. People smile and move differently in different cultures, expressions and responses here are imposed. We think we know and see but we see only what our era imposed on the past. It's colonizing the images of the past for our own kitsch amusement. But the past aren't the fools.
But it is the future and is where things are going so no reason to be the radio fan shaking a fist at the moving picture box.
Well put Althouse. The moment is gone. It is no longer art.
But the truth is that the art world long ago abandoned itself to schlock and empty souled performance expression. So bringing back the old art might be better for the contemporary soul. We don't need the little card to tell us how to think amd feel about this AI work
Althouse you should start a companion blog that takes your daily post prompts but is written entirely by AI. Call it AIthouse
We could have AI commenter's respond.
1. Real moving pictures. The triumph of technique over purpose.
2. AI will continue to excel at replacing the college-educated workforce.
Meh.
Vermeer woulda done it, if he coulda
Regardless of the majority snark here, I found this very interesting. It reminded me of the innovative and incredibly beautiful full-length animation film called "Loving Vincent" (2017) that used a rotoscope technique mixing live action with animated action in the milieu and style of Vincent Van Gogh (by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman).
Each of the film's 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas, created using the same techniques as Van Gogh by a team of 125 artists drawn from around the globe. Really a brilliant artistic accomplishment.
or The Majority of today's young women; their hopes and dreams are to become an rich Only Fans girl..
Those hopes and dreams are trashed by AI
Actually, I disagree. In the short run, AI will allow people to customize their porn fetishes, creating a dip in the only fans market since they may not be able to fulfil certain fantasies. And fantasy is what it is all about. (Note how some Only fans stars are well outside the normal of attractiveness because it is the unusual that is the driver for the triggering of stimuli.) New and novel is a required element, much like the issue with certain drugs, once you experience it, you need more to reach the same level of effect.
So, with AI porn, it will drive some extreme fetishes that can't be easily performed live, but eventually, that too will fail to satisfy and there will be a resurgence to the real person since that is the only real novel experience. Of course, real copulation can never be eclipsed by porn, but it suffers from the fact that laws restrict transactional sex, and for non-transactional, you have to invest a large amount of personal effort to deal with another person's personal challenges. People gravitate toward porn because real relationships are hard.
"... in fact, right now, what A.I. did to those famous paintings is worse than any random few seconds in a well-made movie ...".
You're starting to catch on.
This reminds me of something I read many years ago, when Bill Gates was Wunderkind of tech. He talked about designing a fully-networked house that would "play your favorite song every time you walked into the room."
That struck me then- an still does- as completely shallow vision of what music is and aspires to be. What if your 'favorite song' changes over time? What if it's not appropriate to the moment?
What if you don't want to listen to it while you take a shit?
It's banal
My one big complaint with Elon Musk is that he seems to get blinded by technology. Technology is great, but it's not that great. In fact, AI has some pretty serious downsides to it.
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made” ~ Immanuel Kant
That lesson applies to all would-be humanity straighteners: whether they be Bolshevik revolutionaries or AI evangelists.
There, now, you are relieved from contemplating the mystery of human emotion and entertained by the comfortable reminder that when young beautiful women smile they are simply fantastic.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
I agree. We should probably get used to it.
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