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New art is unpredictable, like new scientific discoveries. Is that the unpredictability of randomness, or the deeper unknowability of knowledge-creation?
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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The art teacher will assign visual puzzles, dead ends disguised as useful exercises, as well as the creation of deeply personal narratives. The assignment doesn’t seem to have anything much to do with putting pencil to paper, yet on inspection it turns out to have everything to do with it.
Seth Godin • The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
And the weird thing about it is that I realized then that understanding modern art really was like a religion, inasmuch as it was a practice before it was a dogma: that you could never really get it by understanding the way one picture had changed another, how Cubism had created Expressionism, which created Surrealism, and so on; that it was a prac... See more
Adam Gopnik • Adam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith | The On Being Project
I say no. I’m no expert on machine learning, so please do correct me here if I’m grossly misinterpreting, but, as I understand it, diffusion—the kind of model Midjourney and other image generators like it use—works by understanding the relationship between an image and the text used to describe it, at scale. So, if it finds millions of images that ... See more
Dan Mall • “Artificial Intelligence & Humanity,” an article by Dan Mall
But we, as humans, can look at a seemingly bizarre image, and realize that part of what we’re seeing is the lens itself.