AI art, explained

Thanks for watching! The video above is a primer on how we got here, how this technology works, and some of the implications. And for an extended discussion about what this means for human artists, designers, and illustrators, check out this bonus video: https://youtu.be/sFBfrZ-N3G4

This is so scary, it’s only a matter of time before AI can generate videos and then whole movies with complete soundtracks, characters and a plot

As a researcher working on generative models, this is one of the best, clean and concise explanations for the tech! Kudos to the Vox team! :')

Seeing AI unfold in real time over the years is so satisfying and also a bit terrifying.

As an ML researcher, this was the best 'public facing' explanation of latent space I've ever seen. Good job Vox team.

This is the best explanation of the tech I’ve seen so far. Would love to see a follow up video on this for animations. I believe this is a game changer for music videos.

As a digital artist and graphic designer, this is ridiculously fascinating and scary🤯 I've been watching every videos of Dall-E on the internet...

I feel discouraged from studying art. There's a feeling of satisfaction that comes from conquering something so difficult, from sitting back and seeing the fruits of my efforts grow. I'm afraid of becoming obsolete in a way that's difficult to articulate.

Reminds me of that one scene in I, Robot: Will Smith: "Can a robot paint a masterpiece?" Robot: "Can you ?" At this point it can now be rewritten as: Will Smith: "Can a robot paint a masterpiece?" Robot: " Yes. Can you ?"

Joss is amazing. This is truly the pinnacle of tech journalism.

I used to daydream about computers being able to create a virtual reality version of a book. Looks like that’s on the way. It will probably be even better than that, with the simulation being customized for each user’s specific interests. The future is nuts.

As an artist this scares and impresses me. Its scaring me cause of even the artistic field being overrun by ai in the future but impresses me cause it is just, impressive

I'm doing a research project in machine learning, and I've seen various Youtubers getting things wrong in their explanation of AI. But you guys completely nailed the concept of latent space. I guess you left out how exactly the encoder and decoder works, but this video is targeted at the general public, so fair enough.

The quality with which Vox is able to simplify hard things is amazing

I remember a teacher from my childhood once she said to me "your drawings will get you knowhere, they will save you from nothing", while embarassing me in front of everyone and ripping appart my drawing, and now, having battled heavy depression for many years and trying my best for working in the future in something that has to do with drawings or illustrations... AI came in, "learning" so extremely fast that in a handful of years they will totally outclass artists I mean, ofc I can draw just as a hobby, but a hobby would not give me enough money to pay my bills if the ones who would pay me look for a faster and cheaper option, I guess my teacher (and my father) were right all along

We humans derive meaning, satisfaction, hope and even therapy from conjuring up our own images. There is so much mystery within the frontier of our own minds but ultimately, it is limited. We do not want to find the limitations of our own psyches by watching AI outstrip and outperform what should be a human frontier. AI acceleration is dwarfing its own creations - never mind how small, mundane, and slow it could render human art. I’m a big fan of technology, but I’m a bigger fan of art.

When thinking of professions that could be phased out by AI, artists never came across my mind. The future really is scary.

Let us still not forget the fact that the generated images are derived from hundreds or thousands of creative artworks by us, humans. It is like the arts of different artist all come together to form an unimaginable piece we do not expect. It is still incomparable to an art piece that has the soul and passion of an artist.

You know, as an artist, I don't like where this technology is taking us. It's like autotune and lip sync in the music business. It removes the work and talent out of the equation. People won't have to learn how to draw and paint anymore. Natural talent is what gives credibility to an artist. Their unique style and ideas. This tech will take all of that away. It will allow others to create forgeries and pass them off as being authentic. Artists will discover that they can no longer sell their work once a significant number of people realize they can simply create their own forgeries. The reason you can make a living selling your artwork is because not everyone has the skills to be an artist. This creates a customer base. Well, that is going to dry up when this tech becomes widespread. We should have learned the lesson Jurassic Park taught us. Just because we can do something mind blowing doesn't mean that we should.

you can’t just hit me with the fact that 2015 was 7 years ago so early in the morning