This was a brilliant read, Lucy. I'm so glad i stumbled across it today. I really loved the way you framed average as the backdrop that makes real craft easier to see, rather than the main event itself, and the turn into whose knowledge was excluded from the canon gave it a much sharper edge. It also made me think a little about something i touched on in my AI mockery piece: that surface fluency can be reproduced very quickly, but the deeper layers of judgment, context and lived texture are still where something recognisably human starts to hold. This is one of the first pieces i've read of yours, and i'm already looking forward to the classical paintings in the next :-)
Thank you so much Jade to making the time to read my work. I am very glad you enjoyed the classical paintings, there is so much hidden timeless wisdom in these pieces. I spend quite some time to pair my essays with the right pieces of art and at the same time every essay is my own microlearning path that includes mix of history of art, sociology and economy. I strongly believe AI - just like art - is inclusive and you don’t need to be an expert to interact with it.
This is lovely - and heartbreaking - and honest. As a designer historian among other things, I appreciate when someone else names the same pattern from a different perspective. This has happened before, and quite frankly, it will happen again. Socrates was concerned that the written word would cost man his ability to remember. Go lookup the Luddites. The camera was the end of painting, and digital was the end of print. The most important part of your argument is that we need to be aware of the voices being left in the dark. Some of those voices have immense value.
Thank you Betsy for your comment, it’s an important voice in this discussion. I am so frustrated that we learn nothing from history and constantly repeating the same mistakes. Awareness is a first step to initiate a change but on the other hand I feel so helpless sometimes and wish I could do more. Last year I started to volunteer for “Women in AI” non profit in my local chapter and we are all there almost every day bravely trying to swim against the current to fight for a better tomorrow for many females who feel overwhelmed in the digital era.
This was a brilliant read, Lucy. I'm so glad i stumbled across it today. I really loved the way you framed average as the backdrop that makes real craft easier to see, rather than the main event itself, and the turn into whose knowledge was excluded from the canon gave it a much sharper edge. It also made me think a little about something i touched on in my AI mockery piece: that surface fluency can be reproduced very quickly, but the deeper layers of judgment, context and lived texture are still where something recognisably human starts to hold. This is one of the first pieces i've read of yours, and i'm already looking forward to the classical paintings in the next :-)
Thank you so much Jade to making the time to read my work. I am very glad you enjoyed the classical paintings, there is so much hidden timeless wisdom in these pieces. I spend quite some time to pair my essays with the right pieces of art and at the same time every essay is my own microlearning path that includes mix of history of art, sociology and economy. I strongly believe AI - just like art - is inclusive and you don’t need to be an expert to interact with it.
I couldn't agree more :-)
This is lovely - and heartbreaking - and honest. As a designer historian among other things, I appreciate when someone else names the same pattern from a different perspective. This has happened before, and quite frankly, it will happen again. Socrates was concerned that the written word would cost man his ability to remember. Go lookup the Luddites. The camera was the end of painting, and digital was the end of print. The most important part of your argument is that we need to be aware of the voices being left in the dark. Some of those voices have immense value.
Thank you Betsy for your comment, it’s an important voice in this discussion. I am so frustrated that we learn nothing from history and constantly repeating the same mistakes. Awareness is a first step to initiate a change but on the other hand I feel so helpless sometimes and wish I could do more. Last year I started to volunteer for “Women in AI” non profit in my local chapter and we are all there almost every day bravely trying to swim against the current to fight for a better tomorrow for many females who feel overwhelmed in the digital era.
I am glad to have found you. The exchange of ideas makes for richer work and a stronger signal to amplify.