I’ve been experimenting with #AI art generation this past week. To say it’s equal parts jaw dropping whilst also posing genuine concerns for the future of the employment industry, is an understatement.
I’ve found that when instructing AI with extremely detailed and long-form descriptions of characters and scenes, we always got lack-lustre results. However, for the stunning image we have here – we simply asked it to “paint the meaning of life”.
This is in parallel to some degree with the design industry: if the brief is too specific, and the client too controlling of the creative process, the outcome is often-times railroaded into a design that is unlikely to break any creative boundaries or win any awards.
Outside of the design industry, AI opens up a much wider conversation. I’ve seen AI do amazing things convincingly well – such as copywriting for blogs and product descriptions, voice overs, web design, graphic design, customer services and more. We even have AI avatars for production quality corporate explainer videos now, that to my eye are indistinguisable from real people.
To think AI will not impact almost every facet of our lives is ignorance. In an age of remote offices, where face to face interactions are becoming increasingly scarce and actively being discouraged, how difficult would it be to replace a predominantly remote workforce with AI?
Then we have Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot coming to the fray, which will enable AI to work in the real world, side by side with humanity “to do the jobs we don’t want to do”.
It’s an exciting time to be alive, but I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t have major concerns for my children’s future.
