Since the beginning of last year, I have been contemplating whether AI possesses creativity. Recently, I assigned an AI task to draw 100000 cats of different styles. Through this experiment, I finally understand how humans and AI can collaborate creatively, and where the unique value of humans truly lies.
Since the beginning of last year, I have been contemplating whether AI possesses creativity.
Recently, I assigned an AI task to draw 100000 cats of different styles. Through this experiment, I finally understand how humans and AI can collaborate creatively, and where the unique value of humans truly lies.
Today's story delves into this internal debate in depth, and I hope it can also inspire you.
Does artificial intelligence have creativity? have
I once believed that the creativity of artificial intelligence could surpass that of humans. For example, ChatGPT always provides creative solutions to problems that I cannot solve.
But what exactly is creativity? Creativity is finding a point far beyond your current thinking and connecting it with your existing knowledge. Thinking outside the box defines creativity, and artificial intelligence excels at identifying distant points in its extensive models.
When I have no idea, I often use the creativity of AI to help me realize my wild imaginations. It always helps me break through the boundaries of conventional thinking.
But artificial intelligence lacks aesthetics and judgment
You may disagree with the view that artificial intelligence lacks judgment and think, "I asked artificial intelligence to grade my students' papers, and it did a great job
My suggestion is: Don't rely solely on your feelings. Verify this belief through experiments.
This is what I did when developing the proxy process for automatically generating novels. I presented paragraphs A, B, and C to the artificial intelligence and asked it to select the best paragraph based on clear criteria.
For simple criteria such as' which article is shorter ', artificial intelligence performs well. However, when the standards are more complex or emotional, artificial intelligence struggles. When the article is arranged in ABC order, it will choose A; when arranged in BCA order, it will choose B; and when arranged in CAB order, it will choose C.
Only by adding two layers of referees and using very complex prompts and processes can AI handle analyses like 'which outline has the deepest turning point'. However, implementing such complex judgments incurs an unacceptable high cost for the system.
The creativity of artificial intelligence fills the gap in aesthetics
Since my collaboration with artificial intelligence is like the interaction between a captain and a sailor, I am not worried about its lack of aesthetics and judgment. On the contrary, I will utilize its advantages to generate a large amount of content.
Top 10 collections of Midjourney style reference codes for artificial intelligence painting models
With the advancement of artificial intelligence capabilities, it has become increasingly easy to prompt and generate high-quality content.
Taking Midjourney as an example. By introducing the - ref style reference parameter, I no longer need to worry about professional artistic vocabulary. I just need to find the image of my favorite style and use the - ref image link to effortlessly replicate this beautiful style.
You don't even need to refer to images - just a style reference code. For example- Sref 238978694 generates patterns based on prompts such as environment, plants, animals, boys, and girls:
It's very simple. Add a random number - ref at the end to generate an image, then choose your favorite image and save the style reference code for future use.
From then on, invention became discovery. For me, choosing from a large number of pictures is much easier than creating a beautiful picture from scratch or carefully designing a string of artistic tips.
Human creativity still plays a huge role
I have written a program that enables artificial intelligence to automatically generate cats of various styles. At first, I felt like a mouse getting into a rice bowl, amazed by the diversity of cats, and thought to myself, "Wow! This is amazing! This is really special
However, a few days later, the novelty disappeared and I began to feel bored - "Oh, here it is again
In the end, I even started to feel headache about having too many styles. Things that used to look unique and beautiful become mundane due to the excessive number of styles generated. When I tried to find promising style code, I felt discouraged by a lot of mediocre creations. Discovering has once again become a difficult task. Potential style code, combined with human creativity, can produce truly wonderful works.
Artificial intelligence can create independently!
Can we set up a proxy process with a set of prompts so that AI can start creating independently?
Yes, it is possible. I have designed a workflow for artificial intelligence that follows a series of tasks to create impressive content.
Match writers by style: Identify and match writers based on their unique style.
- Confirm Match: Verify the match by providing several options and eliminating the options that were incorrectly matched in step 1.
- Describing Famous Scenes: Describe famous scenes based on the author's work.
- Convert scenes into prompts: Transform these famous scenes into detailed prompts for image generation.
- Generate Image: Create an image in the appropriate style according to the prompts.
For example, the cat in the upper left corner of the image is recognized by artificial intelligence as matching the writer Oscar Wilde.
Then, artificial intelligence extracted famous scenes from Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", transformed them into prompts, and created the following image.
Did you notice the hollow gaze of the handsome young Dorian Gray on the left? On the right, he held a dagger in his hand, just like the posture of the Oscar Wilde statue on Dublin's Merlin Square?
These details really amazed me! When artificial intelligence has powerful methods and can acquire a large amount of human knowledge, it can generate exciting guiding creations.
Quality creation requires human participation
The above process seems to run smoothly, generating a large number of styles and images, and the workflow has been carefully adjusted to always provide high-quality results. This may raise some questions: why not let artificial intelligence handle everything while humans are resting?
My answer is very clear - we must emphasize the value of human participation.
The image of Dorian Gray holding a dagger surprised me because it reminded me of Wilde's' From the Abyss' and the statue in Merion Square. It is valuable because as a human being, I am a part of the audience, bringing my own experiences and emotions into understanding and reading.
What if there were 100000 cats, whether created by artificial intelligence or humans? The truly important cat is the one I create at a specific moment, infused with my personal expression and passion, or the cat that captures my attention and resonates with me among countless other cats. These creations have true meaning.
Collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence preserves unique beauty
I terminated the automated script and confiscated 100000 cats. o(*￣︶￣*)o
The creation of artificial intelligence is like a flood, with the average level of large-scale language models surpassing human intelligence. Lazily relying on artificial intelligence to improve efficiency can lead to content hovering at mediocre levels and being used for further training, thus continuing this cycle.
I am particularly concerned that artificial intelligence may perform "Gaussian blur" on human culture, similar to denoising algorithms, where unique styles gradually homogenize into gray blur.
To me, as a unique individual, artificial intelligence is just an ordinary person. But I can integrate my creativity and judgment into the creation of artificial intelligence, inject soul into its output, and create truly valuable works for me.
The exploration of style code libraries is meaningful, and the proxy process that requires continuous human involvement in selection and improvement is valuable.
Everyone who actively participates in artificial intelligence will leave a unique mark on the work they co create. A world that preserves the uniqueness of each individual is the world that truly holds meaning for humanity.
A sentence from Liu Cixin's "The Wandering Earth" resonated with me: "Civilization without humans is meaningless
(Translation: Dr. Pumpkin)
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