My Computer Just Made Better Art Than Me. Should I Be Worried?
Take a fun quiz to see if you can outsmart the AI artists, and let's talk about the surprisingly blurry line between human and machine creativity.
Want to try something fun? Click this below link and take a quick quiz:
You'll see 50 pictures.
Your job is to guess: Did a human or an AI make this?
Just go with your gut! We'll talk about it after.
Done? How did it go?
Easier or harder than you thought?
If you found it tough, you're not alone.
Thanks to Navin Kabra and his this newsletter i learnt about it. A recent study used a similar test, and get this: 40% of people couldn't tell the difference between art made by a human and art made by an AI.
That's a lot!
Remember the Turing Test? It's a test to see if a machine is thinking. If it can fool people 30% of the time, it passes. These AI artists are passing easily.
Now, you might be thinking, "But I've seen AI art! It often looks kind of weird, right?" And yeah, some of it definitely does.
But here's the interesting part: when we don't know it's AI art, we see it differently. Suddenly, it doesn't seem so weird. It might even seem... kind of cool.
That reminds me of a guy named Marcel Duchamp i learnt about recently. Back in 1917, he put a urinal in an art show and called it "Fountain."
People were shocked!
They said, "That's not art!"
But later, a bunch of art experts said that urinal was the most important artwork of the whole 20th century.
Why?
Because Duchamp wasn't just trying to be silly. He was asking, "What is art, really?"
AI art is doing the same thing today.
It's making us ask: "What does it mean to be creative? What is art in a world where computers can make it?"
So, did you do well on the quiz? Or did the AIs trick you?
Either way, the big question is this: Are we okay with changing what we think art is?
Think about it.
Until next time,
Manoj
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