The Emotional Intelligence of Art
Like everyone else, I have found myself spending a lot more time on social media since March of 2020. (Gee, wonder what happened.) One of the very first things that I found myself missing - desperately - was human contact. Hugs, face to face conversations over a good meal or a cup of coffee, concerts, all the good stuff that comes with human experience. However, it would seem that some people... don't miss it. Or maybe they just don't understand it. Over the last year or so, I have been seeing more and more companies and apps offering A.I. generated "art". I'm not just talking about visual arts. I recently heard an ad for a company that sells A.I. generated books that wannabe authors can put their names on and make a buck. I have seen A.I. generated screenplays that look like they were written in English then translated into Japanese, then into Russian, then into Klingon and back into English. This isn't art. None of it is. It's just regurgitating informa