Hello! Looking at the images appearing in Life As A Human’s blog posts, the time is not far when AI generated images would equal actual, artist created images, in number. So, AI can draw. But how are drawing and creativity linked? Let’s see!
Creative humans are capable of releasing their energy in the form of art. Be it writing poetry, singing a song, creating music, dancing, or drawing and painting pictures. Drawing is just one form of creativity.
So, what is creativity? To answer that question, let us explore the mind of a human. A tiny grain of thought is generated in the mind, which if the body chooses to, can turn into an impulse. If this impulse consumes the brain, the body produces a reaction which could end in creating a piece of art. The ability of the human mind to form a grain of thought is creativity.
While engaging with children who are interested in art books, it would be interesting to the child if books that recognize the human potential to spark a grain of thought are suggested.
In one of my art classes teaching visually challenged students, I observed the total number of students who produced a drawing. The students who were creatively motivated outnumbered the creatively uninspired students. This shows that a grain of thought is necessary for someone to draw.
One afternoon, we were drawing a red circle. My kids (I used to call them that, and, oh, I’m so proud of them!) used a mix of inspiration and instinct to be successful at this task. When a simple grain of thought takes root in a human mind, it has the power to gain momentum through becoming an impulse. It has the power to combine what you want to do with what you know subconsciously. The red circles I saw were an example of this.
A human is a human is a human. If students with special needs can indulge their creativity, so can children who are fully capable by themselves. It is important to invest in resources that are inspiring to children ranging across the spectrum. More important is the ability of these resources to gently encourage the child’s raw ability to form a grain of thought.
We’ve seen the case of humans. How does AI draw? AI is great at observing individual data points and recording them. It then plays a game of Situation and Response. Presented with a particular situation the machine can understand, it pulls out a data point and suggests it as a solution to the situation.
So how would AI draw a red circle? There would absolutely be no grain of thought, leading to an impulse, because machines cannot think and feel. At least not on their own. So the red circle would be one out of many red circles recorded in a database of colored shapes.
So no machine, software, or AI would be capable of generating art by itself. In training today’s children to interact with AI it is necessary to stock up on resources and actual software that cater to a child’s ability of thought. A dry laundry list of instructions, however, would not suffice on its own. The resources should help the child acknowledge their ability and match it up with what the software can pull out.
That’s the story of drawing, Creativity, and AI. I hope you liked it. This is my first time featuring at Life As A Human! I’ll see you again, soon.
G’Bye,
Gaurvi.
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Guest Author Bio
Gaurvi Joshi
Gaurvi is a B2B Blogger with her own tech blog. She taught Art to visually challenged students while still at college. She observes artists and creators in her community while engaging in visual art once in a while.
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