Programming, art, music, is just “describing what you want” in a very specific way. This is describing what you want in a much more vague way.
The upside it that it’s more “intuitive” and requires much less detail and technique, as the AI infers the detail and technique. The downside is that it’s really hard to know what the AI will generate or get it to generate something really specific.
I believe the future will combine the heuristics of AI-generation with the specificity of traditional techniques. For example, artists may start with a rough outline of whatever they want to draw as a blob of colors (like in some AI image-generation papers). Then they can fill in details using AI prompts, but targeting localized regions/changes and adding constraints, shifting the image until it’s almost exactly what they imagined in their head.
The upside it that it’s more “intuitive” and requires much less detail and technique, as the AI infers the detail and technique. The downside is that it’s really hard to know what the AI will generate or get it to generate something really specific.
I believe the future will combine the heuristics of AI-generation with the specificity of traditional techniques. For example, artists may start with a rough outline of whatever they want to draw as a blob of colors (like in some AI image-generation papers). Then they can fill in details using AI prompts, but targeting localized regions/changes and adding constraints, shifting the image until it’s almost exactly what they imagined in their head.