Why AI’s rapid progress is actually a good thing for artists

Here’s the thing; AI can eventually get creative over the years, but it cannot get emotional. AI can know psychology, but it cannot know the differing emotions of every person in the world. It can read body language perhaps through its education in psychology and philosophy, but it cannot understand a human’s heart and their mind. This is what makes AI good for corporations and for accomplishing goals but not for forming connections and trust. What’s more, AI can’t know love, grief, anger, and all other emotions that define human beings and perhaps their subconscious motivations for all their actions.

With AI will come an easy and precise blueprint for success, but other than a business’s workflows, there is another critical aspect, communication, loyalty and trust in the world, which can only be achieved by humans having faith in each other and trusting that the person at the other end will do their job. But well, my goal here isn’t to talk about the corporate world, my target is the aesthetic, poetic and artistic field and contrary to what people might think, AI’s progress actually opens up a lot of doors for this underrated profession.

With AI’s unbeatable analytics and task automation abilities, more people will focus on leveraging their original and creative ideas to make their dreams into a reality with limited resources. This implies that with the smooth delivery of their ideas by accessible AI tools, more people will look into artistic forms of expression and of relatable works that help them understand themselves.

Though the above point is an emotional assumption, there is a guaranteed logic to it as well. With AI’s unparalleled strengths, people will have no choice but to get creative and to leverage their only advantage over AI- that is, their ability to think on an emotional level. Their emotions are important in an AI and human collaboration to maintain a moral integrity to their use of technology for their purposes and key to creating a productive team. As AI grows, more and more people will appreciate the art of ‘thinking’ – of putting emotions and ideas into artistic or intellectual creations and art, as a whole field, is definitely going to grow bigger.