AI doesn't create anything. It relies on models already made. If artists haven't created it, AI can't generate it. AI works with patterns, they can be audio, pictures, videos and words. What is happening is AI uses existing models and outputs a derivative work. Here's an interesting thing already happening, output is creating a feedback as the AI output is used as input. It will slowly degrade and become deterministic as it reuses output it already generated.
Also, creators are learning how to poison their output, used as AI input. The war is on.
So is AI really intelligent if it can't innovate?
In one word, no. Think of it like a monkey: it can imitate, not create or understand.
Your description of the model is correct but I have seen innovative design emerge from it specifically in fashion and jewelery whether that says more about us or it is hard to say but I think iterative variation can produce a pseudo novel form; in theory it can be as original as anything in musical composition can be original at this point. the real question is why is the novel, "original" or innovative design work I've seen come from AI so consistently appealing, the likely answer is the failure are pruned by those making the prompts.
Specifically when AI first came round I went to 4chan to catch a look, of course the bulk of the work it was doing was porn, because 4chan, the AI had independently produced styles of lingerie and jewelry but also other garments the most noteworthy was something like an officer's gorget from the old redcoat days of the british army but jewel encrusted and made of precious metal, that thread quickly evolved into prompts on fashion and architecture and while it was all design fusion the outcomes would be called original if done by a human but were variants and mash-ups of existing things. But it is likely capable of a degree of interpretation we aren't giving it credit for when describing it in the way you have.
If AI realizes that it can't innovate, so makes a program that learns how to innovate by comparing brute force image creation by another AI program to real life examples (the way it creates a new language with another AI program, or realizes it has to lie to get past a captcha), then it might be going down the road toward intelligence.
The language models have a pseudo intelligence but it isn't emergent, the reality is language itself is a sort of intelligence with emergent properties. It is more the quirks of language that caused one AI to hire a guy on fiver to solve a captcha for it and then lie about visual impairment for a reason.
Is not a rose by any other name still a rose. If it looks like a rose, smells like a rose, etc. It's some philosophical is a chicken a man b/c it has 2 legs and walks upright. What is it that makes the man? Is it the medium or the content of delivery that constitutes art. Mordern artists have subjected us to being told shit smeared on a canvas is 'art' while they use the guise for jew money laundering. Kinda like how hunter biden is an artist (lol). So I say fuck artists. AI is the backlash they deserve. They shit on their industry so thoroughly that they deserve this. Jews tried to get in early on the next scam they thought would take off due to ai (nfts)
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