New Video: The Big, Unanswered Question about Multimodal Creativity [GPT-X, DALL-E, and our Multimodal Future]
Today’s video attempts to answer a really important question : what is the role of humans in our AI driven creative future?
I’m really excited to hear what you all think and get your perspective on this topic either in the YouTube comments or down below.
YouTube Transcript (SPOILER WARNING)
Have you been wondering something?
Do you feel there’s a big question here that I haven’t addressed so far?
… what is the point of humans creating any new things at all? Why can’t the content be entirely conceptualized and made through AI without any of our involvement? Do humans really need to be a part of the creative process?
I call this question, “The Big, Multimodal, Pink Elephant Question” and it’s a really important one.
But before I answer it, I want to just remind you this series deals with a timeline of the next 2 to 10 years. So, I’m only talking about the years 2023-2031. And honestly, I don’t see superintelligent, omnipresent AI (the kind you see on TV) existing by then. By the way, with superintelligent AI, we will have other, possibly greater existential questions to answer beyond just our own need for creative self actualization.
With the mostly primitive AI capabilities this decade that I can imagine, it’s anybody’s guess what could happen. But when I really think about it, I think humans, by definition, crave control. Once a machine has generated something for us, we want to change whatever was made further … this is something I already see today with how humans use existing multimodal AI models. I don’t think we can accept things as they are, we always tend to interject ourselves into everything that we do and everywhere we go. This means that I think we will always have a meaningful role in the creative process.
But what would it look like? Well, if we’re willing to give up this act of initializing a creation to AI, the nature of creativity itself will evolve. We will find new ways to set goals, compete with each other over our work’s underlying value, and discover meaningful economics. I don’t think the next few years are as simple as AI making entirely algorithmically perfect content that we consume nonstop and no human will ever create again.
I almost think humans will still be some kind of necessary change agent - or honestly, middleman - who is necessary to the process of bringing creative projects out of some void of daydream nonexistence, into the very real physical and socially constructed reality that we’re in. This is my view, and I could possibly be really, really wrong on this one.
But, what do you think? Will humans have a role in creativity over the next 2 to 10 years? Let me know in the comments below.