So you’re saying we’ll one day connect with machine art as profoundly as we do now with human art?
Yes. The machine sees the world in a different way than we see the world. Just like an artist does. That gives you an inkling that machines will have a different physiology. In time, they will evolve emotions. Just from scanning the web now, they could imitate our emotions. They’ll say, “Oh, thirst, that’s cool. I think I’ll be thirsty,” and they can convince you they’re thirsty. “Love, that sounds cool too, I just had this nice discussion with a machine down the street, and it seems like love.” They’ll hone their notion of love by reading novels, and soon they will evolve emotions and consciousness. That will be the point of artificial general intelligence. Then it’s just a hop, skip, and a jump to artificial superintelligence, where they go beyond us in intelligence, emotions, and consciousness. […]
Read full interview: Picasso’s Got Nothing on AI Artists – Debating the impact of machine-created art, published in Nautilus on December 5, 2019.
Image: Juan Gris [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
