[ibuildthings]

Author here. Just to clarify, motive of this work is to ease curation, with the massive amount of content being created; but by no means an attempt at creativity or originality.

The work is not at all contradictory to Adorno, especially in the sense that it is explicitly trying to as non-reductionist as possible, and assuming notion of aesthetics is a dynamic entity .

There is a finite pattern in the dataset; more interesting, it has its interesting share of subtleties ( for example, as opposed to a image classification problems), and the technological question is whether we can capture these.

But there is another interesting data question. For our work, we curated our training set with the help of expert curators. But the dataset itself is a metamorphising entity; i.e. it is subject to revision ( it is a continuous process for us at the moment), but more interestingly it is a chance for open debate between our curators. In some sense, technology allow to codify and challenge our notion of aesthetics ( especially with the evolution in our training sets) at a given point of time.

[mccoyspace]

Thanks for the followup. I enjoyed reading the article and it is a very interesting project and a great effort. I did read at the end that it was about how to amplify the efforts of the human curators -- a great problem to tackle.