Artificial Intelligence Art and Cooking

Comparing the processing of cooking food with making digital images using AI

An image of a retro futuristic Soviet laboratory I made

Unless you live under a rock, you must have picked up on the fact that we currently live at the beginning of an artificial intelligence revolution. In many ways, this is like the beginning of the internet revolution. It swept across the world in the mid-90s and later accelerated with the smartphone revolution of the 2010s. It didn’t necessarily feel dramatic right there and then. Except suddenly you realize that you are ordering your plane tickets online, paying all your bills through a computer and ordering books and other items through Amazon rather than walking into a physical store.

Artificial Intelligence, like the internet, is transforming every possible aspect of our life, but in this story I want to discuss the creation of digital art specifically through the use of artificial intelligence. While you may not care about that subtopic in particular, it does say a lot about both the opportunities and limitations of artificial intelligence in general.

A cat image I generated using stable diffusion

For the last two months, I have gone down the rabbit hole of AI Art. Having…