Will Artificial Intelligence End Human Creativity?

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0:00 Intro
1:26 AI Innovation is Moving FAST
3:40 How the AI Works (simplified)
4:28 What Does This Mean for Design & Culture?
5:54 AI Limitations
7:59 AI Strengths
10:45 Design Trends Will Move FAST
11:44 Crazy Emerging AI Technology
14:00 Can AI Actually Create New Ideas?
15:00 Creative Entropy?
15:57 Is Anything Really New, Though?
17:51 Innovation is OUR Responsibility
18:43 Onshape sponsor
19:52 How to Use AI Design Tools
24:38 AI Tools Will Be Accessible to EVERYONE
25:27 How AI Will Affect Employment?
29:29 Who Owns AI Artwork/Design Work?
30:51 The AI Creativity Explosion

All content written by John Mauriello. Edited by Bradley Heath and John Mauriello. John Mauriello has been working professionally as an industrial designer since 2010. He is an Adjunct Professor of industrial design at California College of the Arts.

[OnshapeInc]

Great video John! Really interesting to start to think about the engineering applications as well

[cesarchavez]

I have mixed feelings about this, I always thought that art and design would be the last thing an AI could do and as someone who studies art I get several existential doubts such as: should I stop studying and focus on how to use AI? Or wasted all this time studying and practicing anatomy, light and color, structure, perspective? And despite enjoying making art, now I feel useless and that all my efforts have been useless because there is already something that potentially can do it faster, better and cheaper.

[nadia-bbmn]

I find this devastating. Feeling in awe of art is important, and that will be lost. Also, as an artist, I enjoy the tedious part of rendering. We don't need to make more stuff faster, we need meaningful work that we find fulfilling. People are meant to create, not just consume. There is something hollow in just consuming.

[emubeepboop]

What I am most concerned about right now as an artist is not AI stealing our jobs but companies stealing our artwork to make ai art. There are many examples of AI art looking very very similar to a current artists work without any credit or money given to that artist. As mentioned in the video, an AI can't create stuff out of nowhere. Companies shouldn't be allowed to just steal art from small artists and feed it to an AI to make bland copies of that artists work.

[Mikearice]

The trend of people having to learn no actual manual skills (drawing, painting, spelling, photography, sculpting, handwriting, math, drafting, etc) will just accelerate. Right now, many of those creators still have those skills left over from needing them in the past, which can augment their use of AI. That's why current artists get better results with AI than non-artists. But new generations will have less incentive to learn those skills and fundamentals. The AI is what they'll start off with, and they will only ever know getting instant results by asking a question and clicking a button without the manual work and never having to learn all the details that go with it. Any specific tool can help you but also limit you. Younger generations will use their hands less and less. I already see the issue with my nieces and nephews, where they're more interested in instant results, and mostly see the years of work necessary to learn old school art as a disincentive to ever learning it. They don't get that after a while the process itself is enjoyable.

[LeoCoot]

There is no word to describe the feeling you get from all this, that's why you can't sleep as you said, you are excited by what it can do, at the same time terrified cause it may soon threaten your career or even destroy the world, who knows ...

[aniksamiurrahman]

The most horrific thing is that, all these AIs are owned by only a few companies: Microsoft (OpenAI), Google and a few. There's a valid possibility that in future the whole world would be owned by a few companies.

[amberc.]

I dont care what ANYBODY says...there's nothing more beautiful than Art done by a compassionate artist! Period.

[benjaminmangum]

After doing research on this topic, in my case for audio and music production, for the last few months. I've come to the conclusion that A.I will be used on mass scale for big business and completely wipe out commerical creatives unless you are literally the top 1% of your field. Nothing will be entry level, nothing will be mid level. You'll have to be elite in your field to be considered by a large company.
Small businesses and individuals will stick to using free or cheaper A.I tools to make quick concepts and maybe use them as their actual products, but will still reach out to humans for the fine detail work. The other group of people I could see still hiring humans would be the highly successful and wealthy to commission a large and highly personalized art piece.
The only way a human will be able to make a living off of their art is if they can produce something so different and well made that an A.I doesn't have enough data points on it to reproduce something of the same caliber. (at that time, because the more work you do. The more A.I will learn about your art style. You're killing your job everytime you make something.)

[wesbaumguardner]

I don't think the dangers of AI are overblown. I think they are actually underestimated.

[miflofbierculles]

Pro tip, if you want to not be replaced by AI for a long time, do a physical job that is highly complex and changes on a day to day basis. Plumber for example is probably one of the very last jobs that will be replaced because that work is very situational, there is barely any datasets on it and you would need some insanely advanced robotics to even try.

[anilite_]

The thing that worries me is that this won't be like the advent of photography. This won't just take away a few old fields and create a dozen new ones. To me it feels like AI will kill hundreds of professions, replacing them with only a couple in return. So many artists will just have nowhere to go because we can't expect all of them to suddenly become prompt makers or something
I'm an illustrator/character designer. I'm also learning 3D, can do some environmental/interior design. If one of my skillsets becomes obsolete - no worries, I have 4-5 more career options. But with AI? I have 0. And that terrifies me to the bone.

[biomuseum]

I think AI killing us is a worry of the past, a bigger issue is that it leaves us without a purpose, useless, depressed, baby adults wanting everything on a silver platter, alive but dead on the inside

[nickfotopoulos]

"One thing that AI can never replace is human collaboration."

The immortal words of someone who is doomed to be proven wrong in two-six months.

[Player-remo]

Will they replace human creativity? No.
Will they decrease the demand for artists and designers and thus cause many of them to abandon their career and probably become jobless? Yes definitely!

We are the horse. Dalle 3 will be the car.

[undividual]

Words can't possibly express in full detail and scale the sheer existential dread I have when it comes to AI. The loss of creative jobs is actually the least of my worries -- I'm far more distraught by the idea of the complete and utter destruction of the meaningfulness and value of human creativity as a whole. I think about the world's greatest creative endeavors, the most astounding feats of human creativity throughout history, about our absolute most beloved pieces of art and media, in the form of books, comics, games, movies, TV shows... and I think about how little we would have cared about them if AI had existed in their time. I think about how each of those magnificent works could have been effortlessly dethroned by a work of "art" created by AI, spectacular yet soulless... Created in a matter of hours, minutes, or even seconds, through the research and analysis of the works of real human beings who put years & decades worth of life experience and deep thought into creating.

I've been inspired by so many of those works, those pieces of art... For years I've wanted to create a "final" work of art of my own, a humble masterpiece comprised of every great idea I've ever had, every moving life experience, every little spark of imagination, carefully crafted and refined over a period of years to create something truly spectacular, something moving, something life-changing... but... how impactful would it really be in a world where one can simply generate such a story at the press of a button...?

To all of those great artists who have inspired not only me but countless other people in this world, and have solidified themselves in history long before the advent of this daunting new technology: I envy you not, but please never forget that from here on out, you were the lucky ones.

I know not what AI has in store for us in the future, but if my worst fear comes true and AI is widely accepted and not heavily regulated, then I have only one thing to say: goodbye to a bygone era.

But, to those of you reading this, always remember... "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss

[alexbaker]

I've been considering pursuing a career in vfx, maybe going to school for it. this is honestly devastating because all the people who already have the industry connections are going to be the ones who get to use these amazing tools for paid work and those of us who would be looking to work our way up aren't going to be able to because these programs are going to do everything for a select few "designers" while taking over all the other production team responsibilities that would otherwise be the stepping stones for a career in 3d/vfx/animation etc.

[nickelion]

We thought Art would be the last thing AI could imitate. Kinda weird how it became the first

[snowfenek]

As a Concept artist a the start of my career, I have mixed feelings about AI art and design: what skills that i still lack must I now omit to concentrate myself on new skills with these new tools? What lower level art jobs will be left to give me a foothold in the industry? On the other hand, I am so stimulated by the possibilities made possible and the speed at which these are reachable that I cant wait to get my hands on one of those tools. I picture myself as Lion tamer where the lion cub is the Ai: it will grow big enough to eat me one day, but if I tame it early, i can make him spin a balloon on his nose later on. Let s just hope I know how to handle the Ai whip well enough :p

[redinkreed]

At this point I create art purely for personal satisfaction, like most artists it is something I have been doing since I learned to hold a pencil and it is a part of me. I don't care if I can't make money with it of course I am looking at other ways to make money for survival but I have isolated my love for art from any material gains it can bring me. Yes, I did spend a lot of time mastering some basic techniques and they help me bring my imagination into reality I don't care if someone else is going to pay me for it or not as long as it makes me feel something