We Undersand the Future: « Fragility and uncertainty is the one that distinguishes the artist from Chatgpt »
Where is the artist when the whole world has a powerful tool in hand like artificial intelligence? It takes little. A well -studied prompta centered phrase like the work of a « jeweler of words » to obtain extraordinary results, without even having to go from the years of study and effort that They make an artist, as well as a thinker, also a craftsman, one who can do. And so for two years the figurative arts have turned. Starting from the experiments with Stable Diffusion, the generative artificial intelligence that helped the German Boris Eldagsen a Winning a prize with a photograph never taken in our realityup to the « Ghiblification » Of everything around us, the last visual trend by Chatgpt.
But the artist – that is, the man – is there and will continue to be there. And it is exactly at the center of that space between art and technology where it can give voice to what makes us human: the ability to ask questions, to accept uncertainty. «The thing that distinguishes us from the machines is the same for which the artist can never be supplanted by the machines: fragility, doubt, uncertainty« , explains Fabio Giampietrowhich is at the same time « analog » and digital artist. «The painting, which is a bit the symbol of art, is a bit full of human gestures, inaccurate. The car has no uncertainties. And art serves to create them. «
Talk about art, technology, man and machine to Samsung SmartThings Homethe showroom (arrived in the tenth year of life) located in the heart of Milan where the connected ecosystem of Samsung applied to the house is shown. The paintings of Giampietro are projected on the walls. And to act as a glue for art and functionality, narration and artificial intelligence there is We undertand the Futurethe collaborative platform that connects media, art and technology. Precisely artificial intelligence – now omnipresent in public speech, in homes and even in speeches on art – seems to surround those in the Samsung SmartThings Home.
Forbidden to demonize technologyhowever, because art has fed on the millennia of this. We do not point the finger against the bronzes of Riace, on the other hand, made with the sculptural technique of the lost wax. If today we raise our eyes to the stone spiers of a Gothic cathedral we see beauty and we do not think of the innovation of the cruise vaults and the rampant arches. And again, in front of a photograph today we have nothing more to complain about the technology that has become a tool in the artist’s hands.
One day, perhaps, we will also normalize artificial intelligence. «Some see it as a positive tool because it gives the possibility of obtaining results with a leaner production system, therefore An artist will arrive much faster for the purpose And to the work that wants to convey, « says Giampietro. «The artist’s role has already changed for a long time because it is no longer what the work builds. He is more a director, an author. And therefore the narrative and the choices it makes in the chaos of created things is more interesting ».
In short, its role will be to create « contemplation spaces », that is, « a world of which the user – which is increasingly important in today’s world for an artist – can Find a moment to stop and ask questions».
Everything returns to man. There is no technology without man, nor can there be a space that is not thought of the human mind. Even when trying to make a non -human city. «I imagined how the Ai would have created a city. I trained a modelan empty algorithm, detached from the Internet. I trained it with all the works I had done, so that it had my style. And then I started a dialogue with prompts. I wanted to do something non -humancompletely artificial ». The cities expand and contract, replicate geometric figures such as the frattals and almost reflect the structures we know. « While at the beginning I imagined that he would return the mirror of a company without controlwithout human rules, something completely dystopian, « says Giampietro, » for the first time there were elements that I have never used in my work, which had natural elements, like the shape of the universe, the structure of certain plants. And they came out completely autonomously ».
Artificial intelligence has entered their lives overwhelmingly and almost came to life. But The last word remains that of the human being. As well as in photography, where the car takes place where the man points the goal, even for this technology the last word will remain to us. « There is always a human component at the start. Ai was born because there is someone who instructs the car », he explains Emanuele De LonghiHead of Marketing Communication & Media by Samsung Electronics Italia. «And this aspect remains fundamental today. The human component, which starts the entire process linked to artificial intelligence, must give us the guarantee of being able to possibly transform the « proactivity » of the car ».
On the other hand technology already exists – the « Agents » of artificial intelligence I am no longer a mirage – and it is accelerate A progress that until recently did not believe it was so close. « Today we have the opportunity to have appliances that evolve with us, able to select for us the contents that interest us, » adds Longhi. «It is important to think that this innovation, artificial intelligence itself, is traveling on a parallel track compared to human experience. But the two must travel together And the goal is that artificial intelligence learns from human experience to help the consumer, not the vice versa ».
