The Human-Made Guild

I joined another discussion about AI in art today. It was very emotional. Most of the people there use it in some shape or form, but they also complain about the quality of what it creates when they come across it in the wild. I think that’s the wrong thing to focus on, because the capabilities of generative AI are uneven.In Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI, Ethan Mollick calls this uneven development the jagged frontier of AI capabilities. It’s one of his central ideas. He wrote about it in Co-Intelligence and revisits it in this new book, which I am plodding through.His argument is that AI doesn’t develop capabilities in the same order humans acquire them. It can accomplish extraordinarily difficult tasks while failing at things we consider almost trivial.The things it’s bad at today are the things people at that meeting were judging it by.So when art of all kinds created by generative AI is technically superior, what happens to art and artists? If you make your living as a…

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