Art + Craft #1: Appreciating Art and Respecting Craft
It has come to my attention that art is not being appreciated for what it is and craft is not being respected for what it enables artists to achieve. This is a great disappointment in our society and it is being exacerbated by artificial intelligence (AI) practitioners who feel because their models can achieve similar results then the work that's gone into creating those wonderful works of art was not so strenuous and of low effort. They are mistaken. It is only something that has been written well that can be read with ease. A good teacher amplifies a good student. A clean and diverse dataset makes for models that have learned from the data in an optimal and flexible way without overfitting or underfitting. We are almost looking at a sort of P vs NP problem where we say "Because the results are easily reproducible at scale, the dataset is cheapened and the value it provides is not recognized and the effort to create it is not appreciated". This is the wrong way to look ...