Neural networks in creativity and work

In creative circles everyone is talking about neural networks. Some say they are a wonderful solution for routine and, above all, creative tasks. Others claim this solution is so wonderful that people are no longer needed, since artificial intelligence solves all creative tasks faster, better and cheaper than a human.

Indeed, a neural network makes the result more original, faster, better and cheaper. Most people cannot even tell whether a text was written by a person or a neural network. Except, perhaps, that the network will be recognisable by its perfect quality and the person by their mistakes.

One could develop the idea that the value lies precisely in what is made by a person rather than perfectly. But how many people are ready to appreciate imperfection, especially if it costs more than perfection? Even in cafés people more and more often meet electronic screens instead of staff. Café owners install them because a screen is cheaper and makes no mistakes, and customers are glad they do not have to explain at length what they want.

In the end neural networks take the lead in the quality of the result, and in doing so they give creative people the most important thing – freedom from the paranoid thought of “being the very first”, “being the most original”, “pleasing the viewer, reader, listener…”

Now the creative person has nothing left but to create for their own pleasure, for their own victories within themselves, for growing beyond themselves, for the pleasure of the creative process itself.

This is the real task of creativity – an attempt at self-expression. More precisely, the process of creating. The process of searching, of trying, of trial and error. Using the creative process to search within yourself for the subjects and forms that interest you, to live through these thoughts and feelings more deeply, to enjoy them, stretching out the pleasure, or even to reflect for therapeutic purposes. To make the work as independently as possible, because it is precisely from the process of formulating ideas and interests, searching for forms, colours, sounds, words, movements and combinations, and composing that pleasure, understanding and growth come. Growing yourself for yourself and for a small number of people who appreciate it.

Now everything will fall into place, and people will do creative work for inner growth and enjoyment, not for social approval. Viewers, listeners and readers will find such creativity interesting not as originality but as a personal inner search.

It is easier to follow new publications and discuss them in our Telegram channel