Melbourne, art is based on life, and not so in AI. That's why the art community is uniquely well positioned to show us the limits of AI.
There is no need to read a long academic paper to understand the shortcomings of Artificial Intelligence.
You can just look at the work of Berlin performance artist Simon Weckert. In 2020, Weckert spoofed Google Maps by creating a "virtual traffic jam."H collected 99 smartphones and piled them into a red wagon, then drove for hours down a Berlin street that gave false signals of gridlock.
Within an hour, the normally bustling motorway was deserted – with Google diverting passengers to other routes to avoid "congestion".
Without tech-speak or algorithmic adjustments, the artist beautifully communicates the complex technical limitations of technology. Weckert's work speaks to a long history of excellence in critiquing artists in society.
The art community has the potential to connect with the broader public just as academics and so-called technical experts clash.Amid the AI revolution, artists are uniquely well-positioned to communicate the impacts and shortcomings of AI on our lives—as Weckert did with his “Google Maps Hack.” What Artists Can Do
What human-driven art does and can do is help us all ask better questions and think critically about the limitations of AI. In Weckert's example, it was his human observation skills of a protest Which led them to make a connection about the otherwise notoriously opaque technology, prompting traffic jams during the protest. Weiskert wondered whether phones in protesters' pockets caused the inaccuracy – and he decided to create an artistic expression to illustrate this observation.
Art has a long history of doing this – from Pablo Picasso, who "saw art as a powerful tool for social reform and used his works to meet the challenge of prevailing political and social conditions"; To Banksy, who uses street art to challenge socio-political norms; Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, whose political criticism has led to social change in China and globally.What these artists do, what AI can't do, is integrate concepts, ideas, and experiences – and bring together complexity and uncertainty – so that we're challenged to see a different perspective.What AI can't do
AI is missing a key component that many in the art world consider important: lived experience. In Ai Weiwei's view, "Life is art, art is life". AI has no life, which is a major limitation on its ability to truly create art through experience.
In a recent New Yorker article, staff writer Kyle Chayka explains how AI fails at the "classic exercise" of drawing hands typically assigned to beginners, even though the average human can draw hands well. Many of us fail at the "classic exercise" of hand stretching.The numbers and different hands we see in the AI-generated image through observation and practice.
Humans have an amazing feature where our brain fills in the “gaps”. For example, people with macular degeneration, which impairs vision, experience what is known as "perceptual filling in," whereby the brain fills in visual gaps. Our brain is a Let's visualize what the hand looks like, even though we can only see one angle at a time. We understand that the part of the hand that is not visible from any perspective actually still exists in the real world, our human brains account for this visual "difference" based on our lived experiences.But AI can't. Instead, the AI hallucinates – filling in the gaps with artificial nonsense.
AI doesn't manage "uncertainty" like we humans do because AI is isolated from the world. What AI 'art' has done so far is generate identical and similar images based on its programmed parameters.
This has had a great impact in the advertising world.
AI image rendering is regularly mocked – as was the case with a recent ad used to entice listeners to attend the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.Interestingly, the ad caused quite a stir because of the unusual hands in the AI-generated image. AI sheds light on human biases
Artists often make their work accessible – in terms of the locations where they create their work, and the way the messages are communicated.
Consider Banksy's art: it captures the streets that everyone walks on, and uses images that transcend language. With only the words "Another world is possible" on a single brick wall, Banksy uses imagery to challenge people to rethink the role of technology. In contrast, AI image rendering reflects the biases of humans And performing exceptionally well in enhancing the blemishes.It has been demonstrated that the (human-generated) content on which AI is trained perpetuates ageism, sexism, racial bias, and classism. It's no surprise that AI image generators have portrayed attractive people as young with fair skin.
It appears that AI's prowess inadvertently sheds light on our prevalent human social norms and biases. Human actors are uniquely poised to communicate the real implications of AI's exaggerated and non-existent understanding of the world, and we Inspire you to question and reevaluate your own human blind spots.
With growing evidence that the arts and humanities can help us effectively engage our critical thinking and curiosity, the artistic community could be the inspiration that humanity needs to lift the curtain on the reality of AI.(360info.org) NSANSA
There is no need to read a long academic paper to understand the shortcomings of Artificial Intelligence.
You can just look at the work of Berlin performance artist Simon Weckert. In 2020, Weckert spoofed Google Maps by creating a "virtual traffic jam."H collected 99 smartphones and piled them into a red wagon, then drove for hours down a Berlin street that gave false signals of gridlock.
Within an hour, the normally bustling motorway was deserted – with Google diverting passengers to other routes to avoid "congestion".
Without tech-speak or algorithmic adjustments, the artist beautifully communicates the complex technical limitations of technology. Weckert's work speaks to a long history of excellence in critiquing artists in society.
The art community has the potential to connect with the broader public just as academics and so-called technical experts clash.Amid the AI revolution, artists are uniquely well-positioned to communicate the impacts and shortcomings of AI on our lives—as Weckert did with his “Google Maps Hack.” What Artists Can Do
What human-driven art does and can do is help us all ask better questions and think critically about the limitations of AI. In Weckert's example, it was his human observation skills of a protest Which led them to make a connection about the otherwise notoriously opaque technology, prompting traffic jams during the protest. Weiskert wondered whether phones in protesters' pockets caused the inaccuracy – and he decided to create an artistic expression to illustrate this observation.
Art has a long history of doing this – from Pablo Picasso, who "saw art as a powerful tool for social reform and used his works to meet the challenge of prevailing political and social conditions"; To Banksy, who uses street art to challenge socio-political norms; Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, whose political criticism has led to social change in China and globally.What these artists do, what AI can't do, is integrate concepts, ideas, and experiences – and bring together complexity and uncertainty – so that we're challenged to see a different perspective.What AI can't do
AI is missing a key component that many in the art world consider important: lived experience. In Ai Weiwei's view, "Life is art, art is life". AI has no life, which is a major limitation on its ability to truly create art through experience.
In a recent New Yorker article, staff writer Kyle Chayka explains how AI fails at the "classic exercise" of drawing hands typically assigned to beginners, even though the average human can draw hands well. Many of us fail at the "classic exercise" of hand stretching.The numbers and different hands we see in the AI-generated image through observation and practice.
Humans have an amazing feature where our brain fills in the “gaps”. For example, people with macular degeneration, which impairs vision, experience what is known as "perceptual filling in," whereby the brain fills in visual gaps. Our brain is a Let's visualize what the hand looks like, even though we can only see one angle at a time. We understand that the part of the hand that is not visible from any perspective actually still exists in the real world, our human brains account for this visual "difference" based on our lived experiences.But AI can't. Instead, the AI hallucinates – filling in the gaps with artificial nonsense.
AI doesn't manage "uncertainty" like we humans do because AI is isolated from the world. What AI 'art' has done so far is generate identical and similar images based on its programmed parameters.
This has had a great impact in the advertising world.
AI image rendering is regularly mocked – as was the case with a recent ad used to entice listeners to attend the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.Interestingly, the ad caused quite a stir because of the unusual hands in the AI-generated image. AI sheds light on human biases
Artists often make their work accessible – in terms of the locations where they create their work, and the way the messages are communicated.
Consider Banksy's art: it captures the streets that everyone walks on, and uses images that transcend language. With only the words "Another world is possible" on a single brick wall, Banksy uses imagery to challenge people to rethink the role of technology. In contrast, AI image rendering reflects the biases of humans And performing exceptionally well in enhancing the blemishes.It has been demonstrated that the (human-generated) content on which AI is trained perpetuates ageism, sexism, racial bias, and classism. It's no surprise that AI image generators have portrayed attractive people as young with fair skin.
It appears that AI's prowess inadvertently sheds light on our prevalent human social norms and biases. Human actors are uniquely poised to communicate the real implications of AI's exaggerated and non-existent understanding of the world, and we Inspire you to question and reevaluate your own human blind spots.
With growing evidence that the arts and humanities can help us effectively engage our critical thinking and curiosity, the artistic community could be the inspiration that humanity needs to lift the curtain on the reality of AI.(360info.org) NSANSA
