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Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence

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Re: Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence

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Post by badminton1 »

You are already being augmented each time you use a search engine, a calculator, an encyclopedia, a GPS, etc... an abacus even.

e.g: The pathfinding algorithm on a GPS is technically narrow AI. And if we stress this even further, a conditional statement could be AI. Your washing machine runs on AI (fuzzy logic).

Same with the term "technology". A spoon is technology, a chair is technology, a roof is technology. The term you would be usually looking for is high technology, which is state-of-the-art technology.

Having said this, AI is an ambiguous term and usually leads to clickbait, large disambiguations and waste of time.

Re: Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence

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Post by rememberlenny »

My work is very relevant here.

I'm a graffiti artist and a programmer. I started using machine learning techniques to augment street art with various nature landscapes (drone images, rolling hills, etc).

By using simple techniques, such as Style Transfer, I have been able to create some interesting images that are aesthetically pleasing, but unusual. I took the digital results and painted the contents on large canvases.

I recently invested in some GPUs and a new deep learning rig. Im planning on exploring what unique results I can make around graffiti LETTERS, which are interesting in themselves.

Take a look!

https://becominghuman.ai/digital-processes-inspiring-analog-...

Re: Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence

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Post by kowdermeister »

rememberlenny wrote: post #5

My work is very relevant here. I'm a graffiti artist and a programmer. I started using machine learning techniques to augment street art with various nature landscapes (drone images, rolling hills, etc). By using simple techniques, such as Style Transfer, I have been able to create some interesting images that are aesthetically pleasing, but unusual. I took the digital results and painted the contents on large canvas…

They look great, but I suggest you to showcase your work on a platform designed for artists, on Medium is barely enjoyable:

https://imgur.com/a/48YYr

Sites like cargocollective are a good start.

Re: Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence

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Post by abcd_f »

rememberlenny wrote: post #5

My work is very relevant here. I'm a graffiti artist and a programmer. I started using machine learning techniques to augment street art with various nature landscapes (drone images, rolling hills, etc). By using simple techniques, such as Style Transfer, I have been able to create some interesting images that are aesthetically pleasing, but unusual. I took the digital results and painted the contents on large canvas…

Dude.

You can't be serious about bastardizing stunningly detailed 9th Wave by Aivazovsky and calling it "Process for turning classic paintings into beautiful color muses." That's like making a confetti from the Mona Lisa with a hole puncher.

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*sph_3TactpBHo_mZ-...

Original for reference - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Hovhanne...

Re: Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence

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Post by tw1010 »

rememberlenny wrote: post #5

My work is very relevant here. I'm a graffiti artist and a programmer. I started using machine learning techniques to augment street art with various nature landscapes (drone images, rolling hills, etc). By using simple techniques, such as Style Transfer, I have been able to create some interesting images that are aesthetically pleasing, but unusual. I took the digital results and painted the contents on large canvas…

When people say "but will AI ever be able to produce art?" I think works like yours is a good thing to point to. In the end, whatever art will be produced by machines is somehow going to be initiated by a human hand. Your work makes it trivially clear that the answer to the question is (1) yes, and in fact they already are, but (2) there is still going to be a person who will need to use his or her personal taste to filter out the bad from the good, which might be what is going to replace the old way of creating things from scratch, e.g. with pen and paper.
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