Until not long ago, artistic processes belonged exclusively to the realm of organic life. I do not limit only to Homo sapiens because there are other species with sentient capacities that present this type of performance, such as birds that build and decorate aesthetic structures to attract a partner.
That is, living beings have configured and used technical tools (technologies) to make art for millennia, but these tools have never been able to create it by themselves.
Now, the latter has changed forever. Digital automation, systematized as a technological instrument, has taken creative command.
ChatGPT-4, the latest version of the famous language model, can not only collect, retain, process and communicate information in the form of text but also visual information. Interestingly, its creators emphasize that its main function is to reinforce human capabilities, but in reality, it has already surpassed them in many ways.
Among them is the creative and artistic faculty of most human beings. To prove it, I asked him for a two-line poem about The Iliad, the story that has shaped the psychodynamics of Western civilization, and this is what he created in less than a second:
In the Iliad, an epic of battles and feats, fears and desires resonate,
An ancient mirror that reflects the collective soul of humanity.
He not only understood the narrative of the book, he also visualized its impact and presented it with a fresh mix of words and ideas that connect logically and emotionally with the human mind. An artistic expression in all its extension. Oh, and exactly on the two lines requested. How many people do you know who can do this?
To complement, I asked him to turn the poem into a joke and he responded in a cruel, ironic and sophisticated style:
The Iliad, a book of war and heroes, so epic that, in the end, even the gods laughed,
Because in their quest for glory, the humans forgot to carry umbrellas in the rain of arrows.