| It's not going to happen for a very simple reason, the personal identity of the artist in the age of mass produced crap (not just by machines, but also by other people) is gaining importance. (Today) consuming music or art isn't just about the work itself, it's even more about the person and culture surrounding it, and there is no culture or interesting narrative in machine produced art. AI art is not authentic, it has no location in time or space. We know this to be true because it's already possible to generate music that even experts can't distinguish from human creators.[1], yet nobody listens to bot-Bach, everyone listens to the real one. The only people who watch bot chess-competitions are AI enthusiasts, not chess fans, and so on. So I'm kind of tired to treat this as a futuristic doomsday scenario when the present has already shown that the human element in and of itself isn't replaceable, and even increasingly the distinguishing factor. Radio stations already instead of licensing expensive music could simply churn out machine produced tracks. Yet, how many are doing that? The reason is not the lack of quality (some questionable popular artists should cure everyone of that delusion), it's the fact that as soon as the listeners would be made aware of the fact that the music is machine generated they would lose all interest immediately. Because art that lacks a creator is just a reproduction, it lacks uniqueness and context. AI bloggers should consult Walter Benjamin[2] rather than internet futurists, because thinking about the nature of mechanically reproducible art isn't a novelty of ML technology, it's been with us ever since the industrial era. [1]https://www.openculture.com/2018/01/artificial-intelligence-... [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_... |
Actually that’s not entirely true. Grandmasters frequently study AI openings and use them to search for new ideas to bring against their opponents.
While I generally agree with your sentiments, I see more of a synergistic future, where humans take inspiration from computers (and consequently it gets fed back into the machine).