Chiang, Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art (1)

Introduction to AI and Art

• In 1953, Roald Dahl published "The Great Automatic Grammatizator," highlighting themes around AI and its potential in creative fields.

• The narrative depicts an engineer who constructs a machine that can produce large amounts of writing in a fraction of the time it takes a human.

The Role of Choices in Art

Artistic Decisions

• Art emerges from the countless choices an artist makes during its creation.

• In fiction writing, each word is a conscious or unconscious choice, resulting in a multitude of decisions over the length of the work.

• Generative AI, on the other hand, relies on prompts, leading to a vastly lower number of decisions being made by the user.