The classic statement of skepticism regarding the possibility of computer creativity goes back to Ada Lovelace in the 19 th century. But while you may acknowledge the creativity of the human beings involved – the programmers and perhaps the users who crafted the prompts – you may be reluctant to say the program itself is creative. It involves a neural network called CLIP and you can try it out yourself.ĭoes learning the artist’s identity change your assessment of its work? Presumably you still see its images as having various aesthetic properties: they are still arresting or soothing, lively or mellow, and so on. Why?īut here’s the twist: the “artist” behind these artworks is a computer program. Furthermore, you probably take these works to be expressions of creativity, at first.īut while you may acknowledge the creativity of the human beings involved – the programmers and perhaps the users who crafted the prompts – you may be reluctant to say the program itself is creative. If you’re like most people, you recognize these images as having notable aesthetic properties: they are variously intriguing, cool, balanced, trippy, captivating, impressionistic, abstract, lovely, serene, evocative, and more. “A painting of humanity surviving artificial intelligence, by Greg Rutkowski”:Ĭommissioned for an illustrated story called “ Tour of the Sacred Library,” the artist drummed up an elaborate series of scenes, including these: The artist is prolific, offering numerous options for any given prompt, including these, inflected through the style of a fellow illustrator, for “a painting of climate change killing humanity, by Greg Rutkowski”: When asked for “a calm still life in ethereal blue”, the artist replied with this:Ĭheck out the artist’s rendering of “Studio Ghibli landscape”: Why? It's because real creativity is an expression of agency, write Dustin Stokes and Elliot Samuel Paul.Īn up-and-coming visual artist is gaining international fame for making images in response to prompts from curious fans. Even when AI makes beautiful, awe-inspiring new artworks, people are understandably reluctant to call it creative.
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