Artificial Images

 Would you agree with me that we do have mental images that we have constructed of others, and especially when we do not have a lot of, almost nil, contact with them? May be, imagination, via fantasy and romanticism, colours them. Yet we cannot deny that such images do exist.

Let me give you a concrete example or two. I have seen very few pictures of either Lokmanya Tilak or Bhagat Singh. Most photos are a blur. Yet I have my own vision of how Lokmanya or Bhagat Singh would look, my own image, my own perception of them, which, may be, is born out of their great thoughts and inspiring ideas.

Well, the so-called AI generated pictures of all the great freedom fighters dispel the myth that the AI is more intelligent and creative than most human beings.  The images that the AI has created of the great freedom fighters give a total lie to such silly suppositions.

Most such images that the AI has created have a rather inebriated look. They all seem to have sipped a little much too much is the feel the pics give. Alternatively, the pics look as if the subjects suffer from an acute attack of piles!

Well, these horrors have made me optimistic though. Many a ChatGPT may come and go, but to human creativity and imagination, a challenge they cannot throw. May be, the AI may be good at logical, rational equations, et al. But no substitute can any machine be to human creativity or imagination!

Let us hope then that the further sophistication of the AI  would depend on the more solid, however imperceptible, base of emotions, synthesis rather than sheer logic, analysis. Well, the moment the right brain takes over, great things happen! There is hope thus for the unique individuality in the AI world whose structure  always appears propelled by the logic of market forces amongst many such vicious circles. Long live imagination! Long live creativity! Long live unique, special individuality!

Pratima@Asimov thought of the three rules that govern the robotic reality. With the AI, too, there is an urgent need to define/refine such principles that could govern tthe artificial imagery! In creativity, the AI has no say!