Botto is part AI, part human community, part DAO, and part experiment on the way to artistic singularity. Jeff Wilser meets its creator, Mario Klingemann.
The question “What counts as art?” has animated the art world for centuries. As AI infiltrates every nook of human creativity, that question looms ever larger. So is Botto creating “real” art?
Then what the tool did, just like Legos, was plugging them randomly together. It would produce something and then transform it, but totally randomly. It was all statistics and about analyzing various histograms and other metrics. The results were actually quite interesting, and you could say that, in a way, everything that followed was just an improvement or a variation on this concept.
In other words, a human artist might travel to Kenya or something and get a jolt of inspiration, and the art would evolve in surprising ways. If it’s just responding to feedback, how does Botto find that same kind of creative spark? There’s a notion that when we create something, we kind of build it out of thin air, and then it’s an idea. But for me, creation is really more like discovery in the possibility space. And you can only create from what you know. You can recombine everything you know in different ways. And in a way, you look at it with your inner-eye and decide, “Is this an original idea? Is this aesthetically pleasing?” And as we all know, our tastes mature over time.
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