Lesson 4 The Future Ahead of Us
AI: Opportunity or Threat?
Recently, an artist used an artificial intelligence (AI) system to create ____ image above for an art contest.
The image won first ____ in the digital arts category.
This ____ to a controversy in the art community.
Some people complained that the artist simply provided the system with basic instructions and let it do ____ the work.
____ felt this wasn’t fair to the rest of the artists in the contest.
However, there were also people who were excited by ____ potential of AI.
Today, there are numerous AI programs that can create various forms of art including images, ____ and novels.
Example 1 Making Digital Images with AI
AI image generators create images ____ on our text requests.
They do this by copying other images that were created ____ humans.
The generators ____ the ability to analyze millions of images and their corresponding descriptions.
This allows them to create ____ of art in a short time based on the provided instructions.
Moreover, AI programs can ____ the styles of existing images upon request.
For ____ you can blend a photograph of a cat with Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.
These two images ____ a few differences.
However, the overall design, the eyes, and the scarf around the head are clearly based ____ Vermeer’s painting.
A simple ____ was enough to create this complex and detailed image.
Example 2 Making Music with AI
AI programs may lead to changes not only in the ____ world but also in the music industry.
These programs are already able to compose ____ and they give you many options.
For example, ____ can choose the style and key, such as C major or A minor.
You ____ also set how long the song will be.
____ you’ve entered the information, the program will produce a song that you can edit or use as it is.
Furthermore, computer-generated imagery (commonly known as CGI) has opened up new possibilities in the music ____
Virtual influencers with extremely ____ faces, bodies, and voices have already released several songs.
Some of them have many followers on ____ media, just like human singers.
These types of virtual musicians are able to speak and move realistically with the help of their human ____
The Debate on Using AI
Many AI programs are open to the public, which ____ they are free and convenient to use.
However, these programs have sparked ____ debate over their impact on humans.
Since AI has the potential to learn skills and perform them better than humans, some people view ____ as a threat.
They ____ that AI will replace humans in more and more areas.
There are also concerns that AI may imitate the styles of human artists ____ their consent.
On the other hand, others think that AI cannot exceed human imagination and that it ____ still dependent on human assistance.
This is because the data that AI uses can have flaws or ____
A dependence on imperfect data ____ little diversity eventually limits the output of AI programs.
Human imagination, on ____ other hand, has no limits or boundaries.
What kind of future do you think lies ahead of ____
Will more people use AI programs to boost their creativity and ____
Or will people grow tired of the ____ of AI tools?
____ provides many benefits and new opportunities.
What we need to do is figure out how to use AI tools ethically and think ____ how humans and AI can collaborate.