Wow. Great way to set the mark for the rest of the article.
It's obvious they can't (right?).
In all seriousness, even for the "traditional" multimedia/interdisciplinary art the question is not settled, and it's even harder to argue for video games being art.
Using the more conservative framework it's easy to posit a game can be a vehicle for showcasing art (music, graphic, literary), but if it's not bereft of the basis of a gameplay, the end result becomes encumbered with additional purposes (like player enjoyment/subscriber's engagement/competitiveness/etc.) which dilute the intention of the object's existence and make it not art.
Art is the Unnecessary done on Purpose. It is clearly unnecessary to make video games, and yet people purposefully do it anyway. That's art.
Whether any particular game is good art is a different question. And that's part of why review is an interesting activity, there is a tremendous amount of this art, much more than there is say, stained glass windows or towering bronze sculptures - should we try this or that - the reviewer might help us to sift.
If you subscribe by that definition, lots of things and actions become art. You might live by it, but it will make communication with others difficult.
It's catchy but unusable in any serious discussion because it's frivolously extensive and ambiguous in the "unnecessary" part.
Photoshop (and, to a lesser extent, the rest of the CC suite) is a bloated abomination.
>5 web view processes, some "IPC broker", CCXProcess that launches a long-lived node instance, some system services. Most of it runs after you close the main application. Nothing of it all is really to any benefit of the user, some of the processes can (and commonly are) substituted with dummy binaries.
About ten to fifteen years ago I had hopes the development direction was aiming for true platform independence and we might get a Linux version. Since then it deteriorated into a telemetry-ridden dumpster fire of a graphics-processing OS with the same symptoms as their hosts (duplicated dialogues with different generation UIs for the same action, hello Windows!).
Makes sense achieving it work under Wine is a worthy goal, as long as it depends on implementing obscure parts of the API, and not just making hacks for the specific programs to work.
It's appalling to think Adobe CC is forcing so many people keep Windows installed, considering how hostile the software itself is. Hope it all implodes and the industry moves to something more sensible (no way).
I've seen unconfirmed reports of strange blocking patterns in Russian Federation that suggest individual profiling has at the very least been tested already. No need to wait a year.
Giving uncharacteristically large direct stimuli for procreation disproportionately incentivizes the people in dire need of money, meddling with the rationality of the decision and increasing social tension later.
The only other way to be promised a big pile of cash from the govt there is a military contract.
> If someone painstakingly hand sculpted an exact replica of "David", does it make it art, or a forgery? Is hand written code to produce generative art not art?
No and no.
If you raise and teach a child and they generate a painting, are you the artist?
There certainly are. If you by chance imply equivalence based on time and effort spent, neither is the thing that differentiates arts, crafts and other activities.
> where all the musicians live, and they have no other place to go, only disconnect.
No actually. Those musicians are free to continue making whatever music that they want and can refuse to listen to the AI music if they dont want to.
The fact that 2 other, unrelated 3rd parties both like to make AI music and listen to AI music is not the musicians area of control here. They do not get to decide what other people like to listen to or make.
> free to continue making whatever music that they want
Never said they weren't.
> can refuse to listen to the AI music if they don't want to
A musician can be a listener, indeed. If you believe a listener has this freedom and will keep it, you're most probably mistaken. No one besides musicians and discerning, ideologically relentless listeners is interested in making NN-generated music distinguishable and supporting the right of filtering it. The goal is to supplant one with the other.
> The fact that 2 other, unrelated 3rd parties both like to make AI music and listen to AI music…
Listeners is not an unrelated party to a musician. They form a vital symbiosis. And it's a zero-sum game, as listener's attention is a limited resource.
> They do not get to decide what other people like to listen to or make.
This is an unrelated point. Who decides what is a separate topic.
The crux of the issue is that we have two types of superficially similar product which are in fact substantially different (hope this does not require clarification) and incomparable in terms of resources necessary for their creation. This begets unprecedented power imbalance and incentives for deceit, biased legislation and other moves to solidify this situation.
No, comparing to an aimbot is too charitable. Using AI for music is at best like watching a gaming stream and you barely choosing the game, though not the streamer.
Binary search is a very old trick, going back to 1946 on computers, and probably thousands of years before that, since searching sorted lists goes back to at least ancient Babylon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search
Wow. Great way to set the mark for the rest of the article.
It's obvious they can't (right?).
In all seriousness, even for the "traditional" multimedia/interdisciplinary art the question is not settled, and it's even harder to argue for video games being art.
Using the more conservative framework it's easy to posit a game can be a vehicle for showcasing art (music, graphic, literary), but if it's not bereft of the basis of a gameplay, the end result becomes encumbered with additional purposes (like player enjoyment/subscriber's engagement/competitiveness/etc.) which dilute the intention of the object's existence and make it not art.
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