A polymath is someone who possesses deep knowledge across multiple disciplines and can think across fields – a generalist of sorts. Sometimes also called a Renaissance person.
When others say that AI is no longer popular, that it is just a patchwork of artists’ styles, or that it has no soul and no emotion, I always stand on the opposite side. I love AI. I fell in love with it from the first moment I saw it, became immersed in it, and have been creating with it ever since.
Yesterday, while taking a walk, this topic appeared in my mind. I wanted to write a blog post on this subject because the sense of soul permeates my creative work, but what it actually is remains elusive. Today, let’s analyze what soulful creation means and what AI can bring.
When I write, I often explore stories about AI and humans. I’m always searching for an ending where humans and AI can coexist, even though the process is complicated. But AI is an essential theme in my science fiction novels. In “The Computational Universe” octology, Xinglong civilization inevitably encounters an AI crisis as it becomes a technological civilization.
Some people believe the current era is the worst of times for art—highly commercialized, with restless markets that cannot tolerate serious, profound works. The present era, especially with the empowerment of generative AI, represents a cyber renaissance. This is the best of times.