The debate about whether internet-fitted AIs can be creative always seemed besides the point to me. Making art is hard. My view is that art is about surfacing the inner world, and only in part about skill. It’s unfortunate that art selects so strongly for skill. Can we decorrelate the two? It seems so. Cheap interpolative* creativity used by 8 billion non-artists surely surfaces new views of the world. For these reasons and since I suck at art I’ve been very excited about the various AI-d...
