Today You Do Art For Yourself
Whenever a new technology comes, a large section of the people are disenchanted. They try to find solace in the old ways; sometimes explicitly resisting the change. The steam engine, mechanised factories and computers are a few examples. Threat to the status quo brings apprehension; change, nevertheless, is unavoidable. Similarly, the coming of the age of AI is inevitable and so are the associated apprehensions. The disruption by AI seems to be unprecedented because it captures the very creativity and innovation that separated human uniqueness from the technologies developed hitherto. Innovation, creativity and ‘art’ are no longer confined to the cognitive walls of the human mind. In a few decades, AI will write significantly better than anybody does, will probably code far better than anybody, will make music better than Jagjit sing ever did so on and so forth. Does that mean we will become irrelevant and replaceable? Underlying this apprehension are some fundamental assumptions that ...
