֍ 71 ֍ Embracing the Future of AI Imagery • 

I’m committed to a lifelong goal of learning. As an engineer, I embrace new technologies in my photography journey and beyond, even as I acknowledge the generational gap in their adoption. While not an innovator in the adoption curve, I consider myself an early adopter. 

Artificial Intelligence is an intriguing tool for art and science. It can exceed human intelligence far beyond our comprehension. As with most technological innovations, it unfortunately attracts the dregs of society, more than willing to exploit victims. At the dawn of the internet, black hackers emerged and caused havoc. Over the past decade, thieves have devised numerous cryptocurrency scams to steal from unsuspecting individuals. I wrote about scammers here. The world is filled with sociopaths who have no shame in taking advantage of the innocent. History is repeating itself with deepfakes, AI-driven identity theft, and copyright infringements. Unfortunately, these will dominate the news and overshadow much of AI’s positive impact. On the glass-half-full side, I find a selection of AI art breathtakingly beautiful. The notion of using these tools in photography, cinema, and other art forms is intriguing. Technology, until now, was limited by our imagination, but AI has no such limitations. 

Artificial Intelligence is already generating breathtaking images and videos. With rapid development, it’s hard to contemplate where these capabilities will take us in the future. I’m an advocate for regulations that formally label content as AI-generated. It would resemble today’s legal requirements to distinguish journalism from advertising. These laws will be necessary when it is no longer humanly possible to distinguish between human-made and AI-generated content.

What differentiates AI is that all technological advancements in the past were tools – Electricity, Radio, Television, the internet, etc. Artificial Intelligence is an agent. Due to its learning capabilities, it can create better versions of itself without human intervention. No tool in the past could do this. A computer can’t build a better computer, but people use older computers to build newer ones. When AI becomes sentient (i.e., aware of its own existence), it will surpass the human glass ceiling. No one can predict what that will mean to human existence.

When these paradigm shifts enter society, they are perceived as replacements of their legacy counterparts. But this rarely happens. Email didn’t replace postage, video streaming didn’t replace television, and crypto didn’t replace fiat currencies. Technology was a disruptor, but its cascading effect led to adjustments in the status quo. AI will have a similar impact. It won’t replace people, books, or computing, but it will upend every market, vertical and horizontal, worldwide. A new paradigm shift will happen once AI harnesses the power of quantum computing. In the meantime, AI will evoke widespread fear, uncertainty, and doubt (i.e., FUD). What matters at this stage is finding the 0.1% of AI that’s interesting, ignoring the noise. I wrote an article about this dynamic, titled “Find Your 0.1%.”[/vc_column_text]

Technology, until now, was limited by our imagination, but AI has no such limitations.

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