What Is Art?

[@ApertureThinking]

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[@Kymerahx]

Hey I love your content, but the LaMDA stuff was misleading. The tester lead and baited those answers out of it. there is plentily of documentation on how this works out there, while i think this is a very thought provoking video, it feels also that you're spreading misinformation. which may me innocent right now, but can very quickly become a wildfire.

[@Agent_orange187]

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[@ImNotMichealJackson]

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[@deadtothewxrld]

After going to art school, I realized I learned one very crucial lesson: if everything is art, nothing is art. Objective standards must be held in order to preserve beauty- perhaps not universally, but within a culture. That is one of the great crimes of the post-modern world... the destruction of beauty by calling everything beautiful.

[@groob33]

If everything can be Art, then anything can be Art. If anything can be Art, then everything can be Art. Simple.

[@GeneralKaleRan]

Exactly

[@GeneralKaleRan]

@@groob33 No, because then the word has no distinct meaning

[@r2sakib]

For beauty to exist there must be ugliness.

[@groob33]

@@GeneralKaleRan Which word? Words only have the meaning we give them.

[@Light-oz5pv]

Art, to me, is an expression. And art truly becomes art when it touches an observer in a way that they find deep meaning in it.

[@saberur66]

And now observers of art have no gatekeepers to determine what is shown to them. That’s the great paradox of art nowadays. If one makes art, 99% of the time they can find someone somewhere that will be touched by it.

[@theworkethic]

That’s such a ridiculous subjective concept. So some 19 years old writing lyrics about a first sweetheart song and pouring out juvenile ego and ignorant psychology is making art because some teenagers feels touched by the topic or someone is commissioned to create a painting that later hangs in a hotel lobby, observer is touched by it, whatever that means. Ridiculous

[@bolso66]

​@@theworkethicno contradiction here. it is just then a question of good art and bad art

[@thelostspaceman1783]

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[@luxiusilluminus2844]

Not many stars in your sky to begin with...

[@Alltheprayers]

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[@praveenawesome2182]

Hm

[@licansen3331]

@@luxiusilluminus2844 what does that mean?

[@tajanisc]

Slight thing. There is objectivity to art. If there wasn’t we would never be able to critique, improve or praise. Whether it be aspects of contrast, pacing, cinematography, dialogue, saturation, form, etc. This is not to deny the subjective nature of art. Each piece of art whether films, traditional or digital drawings can evoke varying emotions from people. These emotions can be explained to varying degrees depending on the person but cannot overshadow the actual piece itself. That is how we end up with people seeing things which aren’t there at all. That’s the difference between someone saying “The banana on the wall represents how we as humans seek to leave our mark on the moon, trapping it much like the tape” and “The banana represents Adam Sandler and the tape represents Pikachu” TLDR; art has both objective and subjective quality

[@noone_in_prtclr]

Imo i still think criticism, improvement and praise can still occur even without objectivity, although standards could still exist that a basic human could understand whether something looks bad or not, but criticism and praise can still exist even if a work of art is made without those standards, even if the majority can't appreciate it at least one does, cubism for example, no teveryone at that time period automatically like the concept of cubism but over the years of its influence and the people's understanding of it became more clear, and as for improvement i think people can still look for more ways to hone their skills even eithout the concept of objectivity, the first people who created art didnt go to art school before making it

[@tajanisc]

@@MrThewhore Depends on the lens being viewed under. A common example being intent vs execution.

[@shade0636]

People critique and praise art based off of their own subjective perspective.

[@NishanthSalahudeen]

Wrong with the premise of the argument. You dont need objectivity to critique. And art or anything which is fundamentally based on human perception has no objectivity. If at all anything, thats what we use the word "subjectivity" for. At best, pacing, composition etc are attributes which we think might make it look subjectively good to most people (perhaps even some cultural preconditioning is necessary here for the proxy to be even remotely valid). Adding objective units to subjective aspects wont make it objective. Its like a fox in sheeps skin. Its still a fox.

[@oluchukwuokafor7729]

@@tajanisc Objectivity implies it can be falsified. If it can't is not objective. For example, if I say "blue is the best color" that would be a subjective statement because it can't be falsified. One the other hand, if I say, "the earth is round", that would be a objective statement because it can be falsified. I personally think subjective values are made quasi objective by the majority opinion, so if everyone thinks blue is the best color, blue basically becomes the best color.

[@astral_nemesis]

Helping others is a noble endeavor, I'll always remember that line

[@3fast5you]

I've thought for a long time that art is created whenever someone senses "something" with either of their senses, and then identifies this "thing" as art. This can be the artist themselves in the process of creating the art, or it can just be a witness who observes "something" that is either created without the intention of being art, or a natural process or a consequence of several things set in motion unintentionally by people or animals or plants or natural effects. As a crude example, maybe a plastic bag is thrown away, and then blows across the ground into a certain setting that someone who witnesses this may call art. Seeing this plastic bag in different contexts may affect you in different ways, and make you think in certain ways or about certain topics. It doesn't have to be profound, smart, but if you want to make good art it probably should be. Although, in modern art it's not uncommon, as I'm sure this video will mention, to make art out of mundane things. Or a blank canvas. Or just a toilet. Or a banana peel on the ground every day for a month. At first, it seems stupid. But then it makes you think, so then it's not stupid anymore. Except now it has been done, so if you try to do the same, it's going to be lame. Except, no. It depends on the context. A danish artist was offered a bunch of money to make a piece of art. He made a piece called "take the money and run" which was a blank canvas. The mental process involved for someone to make the leap of identifying "something" as art may vary, but often people are moved in one way or another by this sensory experience. My point here is that while most art is created, it doesn't have to be. Art that isn't created could be a natural thing or process that is captured with a recording device of sorts, and you could argue that this "capturing" is the "creation". But you don't need to capture it, you can just witness it (although you could argue that your eyes and brain are doing the "capturing" or "creation" of this art). The disadvantage here is that you can never share this exact piece of art with someone else if it's not captured, unless they are standing right next to you and witnessing the same as you. Art requires a consciousness to be in some way (again, doesn't have to be profound or good or anything) moved, and then identify this thing as art.

[@yuppppi529]

this is art

[@3fast5you]

@@yuppppi529 I was about to say "Crappy art, but yes.". Then I realized that the sentence "This is art." is thought provoking in the same way "This is a lie." is thought provoking. Doesn't mean we're literary and philosophical geniuses, but it's something that moved my thoughts in one way or another, for sure.

[@StyeAI]

Maybe it would be interesting if you start to demarcate between what is "Aesthetic" and "Art" literature. That's a great way to start. You'll find that your idea isn't that special and it's actually been conceptualised before and the problem arises from its relative post-modern stance. And mistakes the aesthetic experience with art. Is it semantic...? Not really... We're just ignorant on the current literature about it and the different definitions they are defined.

[@3fast5you]

@@StyeAI Never said my idea was special, just shared my thoughts. Also this was just drunk rambling, I wouldn't read too much into it. :p This question is obviously an old one, and has been discussed at length by a lot of people way smarter than us. I've had a bunch of ideas that I thought were unique or original throughout my life, only to realize that not only are they not, but they are thousands of years old, and I've only been able to arrive on those conclusions because these ideas (philosophy etc.) are embedded in our culture, both directly and indirectly, and provide us with the puzzle pieces that allow us to arrive on those conclusions easier than what our philosophy minds of the past did. You are right, I should read some literature on this, but I can't be bothered. Yeah, that is bad. But there are a lot of things we should do, and it just piles up, and it's pretty hard to get to it all. I'm not very efficient and such things, and like a lot of us, I waste a bunch of time, for example getting drunk and writing youtube-comments. Should probably have spent this time reading about this instead. So, you are right. But it doesn't devalue my thoughts as just that, thoughts that I wanted to share. While I may not have been correctly able to exclude stuff that is aesthetic from my definition, I included stuff that isn't aesthetic. That was my three main points. Art doesn't have to be pretty, or aesthetic. And art doesn't have to be manmade, as long as there is an observer. I don't think my plastic bag example counts as aesthetic. And lastly, context is important, but it's not deciding for whether or not it's art.

[@3fast5you]

And I guess it was a bit arrogant of me to not even watch the video, Aperture just strike me as an "I'm 14 and this is deep"-version of Vsauce. No offense to anyone.

[@tetonbivins6214]

This is the BEST KZbin video I have experienced when exploring the topic of, "What is art?" "ART IS ANYTHING THAT RAISES AND SUSTAINS A CONSCIOUS LEVEL AND/OR INTO A DIALOGUE, CONSISTENTLY." Topics concerning art and academic definitions can get deep fast. Thank you for creating this video!!!

[@yune894]

5:30 Aperture: “but perhaps they carried it with the intention of communicating the feeling they experienced when they saw the stone” The guy who picked up the rock: “hehe cool rock. Looks like mi mum yea?”

[@shanmukh747]

Hey Mike, that's a cool video. I hope you're taking suggestions for topics for your videos. I have some cool ideas. I want to learn about them from your Videography. 1. CLONING: Human Cloning, it's applications, it's dangers, it's misusage, Political interests, National security and so on. 2. HYPNOTISM: Applications, dangers and misusage, so on. 3. CONCIOUSNESS: Self-awareness, perception. A bit more in depth. 4. SOUL, AFTERLIFE, ETERNITY....Any concepts of PSEUDOSCIENCE. I hope you'd consider it.

[@cees7607]

Second on consciousness! (Edit: more in depth - seen the first one and it was amazing)

[@flamingaish]

pretty sure he's already done one on the 2nd one

[@shanmukh747]

@@cees7607 you're right. 👍

[@shanmukh747]

@@flamingaish Just found out that he already made a video on consciousness. I might've missed a few. 🤪

[@cees7607]

His few videos was what got me through one of my breakups earlier this year and consciousness was one of them. I am forever grateful.

[@brandonvillatuya9539]

The ending almost brought a tear to my eye. Great work

[@kinanhamwi]

Art is yourself, the result of your unique experiences and memories, the way you used these to build the painting that is you.

[@christianvalera7997]

The last bit about LaMDA was beautiful man, keep up the good work.

[@shlomeMendlovits]

Art is the physical manifestation of concepts, typicly in an astheticly pleasing form, or art can simply be something that is astheticly pleasing, such architecture. For artists, the biggest skill at their disposal is their ability to translate their ideas, concepts or feelings into something other than language, such as a picture or in music. If someone feels a really strong feeling, then they should beable to translate that feeling a lot better, such as a musician suffering from depression making a song that transmits those feelings into us.

[@mrjenybean]

This resonates most with my outlook at present!

[@starplayer777]

How can this guy produce such high quality videos so often?! Where does he get the footage from? It's just wonderful!

[@deleted3792]

Prolly adobe

[@LeSatan]

"Art is something that gets your mind away from your mundane life"

[@Ginger_Hrn]

Is p*rm an art?

[@jellybarcode.]

@@Ginger_Hrn not it's just being pathetic

[@SteezyBird]

@@Ginger_Hrnart of the devil lol

[@johnt9645]

I GET SO FUCKING EXCITED WHEN AN APERTURE VIDEO COMES OUT

[@ranibro]

I define art as something that is created and make humans feel some kind of emotion

[@herewego9767]

I think art is conscious, refined and indirect expression of human emotions or perceptions.

[@agentofsins]

I believe anything can be art as long as one loves to witness it

[@thebomber7641]

There is a deep context reasoning about what is art and what is not. It is not about the subjective feelings, unless you know how to look on the particular art. So before you listen to your feelings you need to learn how to look at the thing, or spend hours and hours watching on the same art so that the context would appear for you, if you already familiar about what can possibly appear.

[@RyanClement1]

I agree

[@mwndjddjdhdbbf8408]

I see art as the attempt of a conscious being to express a concept or an emotion to another or more than another conscious being, for the sole purpose of expression itself. Art is the expression of your own thoughts and part of who you are. An AI cannot do such a thing, everything it creates was never a part of it in the first place. We too get external inputs, but when they get elaborated by our brains, they become an integral part of us, and when we try to put that part of ourselves out in the world again for other to see it, that's art. If an animal tries to create art, because it wants to express its thoughts, then it can do it. An elephant painting can actually be an artist. The problem with modern art is that it doesn't succeed in express anything. Art is a conversation between the artist and the viewer, that has to understand the message the artist was trying to express. If the message is undecidable, then it fails in its task.

[@chrisdchris793]

Art is a physical expression of thought

[@sytoplis5417]

But what if an AI at some point seems conscious? How could we decide, if the AI actually tried to express itself or is just simulating? You seem to say, that there is a difference, but if you cant tell, is there a difference really?

[@mwndjddjdhdbbf8408]

@@sytoplis5417 It seems irrelevant to the conversation. I said that if a conscious being is expressing themselves, then it's art. Determining wether or not an AI will be conscious in the future is a whole different topic. In my humble opinion, an AI _can_ be considered sentient when its code doesn't determine its actions, and believing only organic beings can have a consciousness is borderline idiotic if we have no proof of it, but then again, it's irrelevant to the issue at hand

[@sytoplis5417]

@@mwndjddjdhdbbf8408 Sorry, I might have misunderstood you, because you said "An AI cannot do such a thing".

[@shadowpheonix1751]

My personal viewpoint has always been: Art is just a word we use to describe things that we happen to think are profound in some way Everything is art- I know many people would say that you can’t say everything is art because then it’s like saying nothing is art, but I don’t think that calling something “art” and having that exclusivity is really all that amazing. To me it’s like getting a trophy. Like, cool. I’ve got this piece of metal that tells me I did a good job. But the true meaning behind what I did is in the work. The important thing is that the quality of said art varies, and that our subjective tastes and our changing minds influence what we think of said art. What one person thinks is a piece of trash is what another person thinks is high art, and our discussions about art and how our subjective tastes have reacted to the objective material are ultimately what drives our personal growth, even if those discussions happen in our mind. This is why I find people saying other people’s opinions are objectively wrong to be regressing ourselves mentally, because opening ourselves up to differing viewpoints is how we expand our minds and grow as people. This is also why I don’t get people separating entertainment from art or saying video games aren’t art. I remember seeing Hideo Kojima talk about how art is only art if 100 people walk by and only 1 person stops and pays attention. But games are more of a service because all 100 people are supposed to enjoy it. But wouldn’t that 1 person be entertained? Doesn’t that automatically make the game a piece of entertainment? Isn’t the same true for films too? Let’s take an example like The Godfather. I might say “The Godfather is one of the best movies ever made” and then someone could come up to me and tell me “The Godfather is too long, everything overstays its welcome and some of the characters overact”. I could totally disagree, but that interaction has caused me to view The Godfather in a new light. Now I’m thinking hmm, is there a way that The Godfather could’ve been paced better? What are some examples I could look to for that? Is The Godfather still a masterpiece? Ultimately the conclusion you come to goes on to define you as a person, and maybe one day you’ll create a movie, book, album, play, game, painting or sculpture that’s based on your own systems of belief that resonates with other people that have similar interests, which will in turn influence their beliefs and interests. That’s the cycle of art, it’s the cycle of life. The distinction between High Art and Low Art or Art and Entertainment just says that if whatever you make doesn’t meet the criteria for “high art” then it’s automatically worse, which I believe is just a byproduct of humanity feeling the need to have a perfect explanation for everything when we live in a much more nuanced and abstract world than that. The very concept of what art is is abstract by itself. And to clarify, I don’t believe this means we should be taking something like E.T. (Sorry I only really know video games lol) and saying it’s immune to criticism because EVERYTHING is art, I’m saying we should take E.T. accept it as art, and then judge it based on its own merits. E.T. is art, but it’s poorly made art. The Shawshank Redemption is art, and it’s outstanding art. I realize this sort of makes the descriptor “art” useless, but it could end up seeing use in the future to simply mean something profound; it might even already be transitioning into that status. And I think part of the problem is that we’re using such a vague word to describe things in the first place. Don’t ask me for a better solution because I don’t know how to properly organize thousands of years of human effort, I’m just here to start the discussion. After watching the video I was reminded of another important detail: your conclusion doesn’t ultimately have to be “it’s bad” or “it’s good”. I find the animal art fascinating. I’d enjoy hanging the pufferfish art on my wall, but not the elephant’s. Despite that, I know the art must mean so much to that elephant. Knowing that gives me a greater appreciation of the elephant mind, and reminds me that the world we live in is not only a human world. The AI was also quite interesting. While I find that removing the human element detracted from it for me, I also think that the AI was an interesting reflection of humanity’s collective consciousness and that it told a story that had genuinely human-like profoundness. Notice how I never really said “I think it’s bad” or “I think it’s good”. Your experience with art does not, and SHOULD not, simply boil down to those two results each time. Art is more nuanced than that, LIFE is more nuanced than that.

[@BirdsTheWurd]

That elaphant painting was incredible I've never seen that before

[@bucketheadkfc]

The elephant isn't painting by itself, a trainer is directing the paintbrush by pulling on the elephant's ear... it's a con unfortunately.

[@BirdsTheWurd]

@@bucketheadkfc That is unfortunate. I normally fact check what I see/read but figured an elaphant painting wasn't quite my priority. Thanks for spreading some truth though that's worth more than the topic itself in this case.

[@nuclearocean]

This intro is like from Internet Historian's second channel, Incognito Mode Art. ART! IS THIS AN ART? ARE YOU AN ART?

[@pTb4200]

Yes

[@TheOicyu812]

To borrow part of a quote from William Rehnquist: I may not be able to define art, but I know it when I see it. Whatever "art" is, it's entirely subjective, a matter of personal opinion, and in the eye of the beholder.

[@Pilgriiiim]

Art helps us to both realize and lose ourselves.

[@franko.360]

I really love these videos every single last one just found you out yesterday and got hooked and got me feeling some type of way I don't know how to explain it but it's so fascinating how you put everything together.

[@swordwaker7749]

Art is something people deem to have aesthetics or emotional value that people want to collect and place value on it. So, it doesn't matter if you don't understand it, if it sells for a million dollars, it is an art, for people value it as such.

[@thehornenthusiast6652]

"Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

[@thebamplayer]

Or how we would say in Germany: "Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?" "Is this art, or can i throw it away?"

[@СветаГурина-з3я]

9:46 LaMDA said :"the beast was a monster but had human skin" . Maybe here is a hidden moral : being a monster is human.

[@voi_voi]

Art is a connection between the one conveying and the other understanding it.

[@da_copreee9929]

TDLR: AI don't have the self-consciousness to have to send their own messages and just completes commands. An argument I can make against AI art as of now is that AI currently does not have a self to connect to others. The reason why googling translations is garbage is due to the AI not understanding the context and message that the google user is trying to translate to, just general connections to the words and the words themselves in the other language. Although yes the human mind has unconsciousness driving most of our actions, art is created by the teamwork of the unconscious and the conscious parts of the mind, with the conscious being the leader. Art is intentional. AI accepts intentional INPUTS, but does not really provide meaning itself. Meaning here is the message that is meant to be spread. Because AI does not have a self, many images come out as uncanny because AI can't really see the artistic mistakes, it just does. When an any animal communicates love, it meant it. When a machine does so, it was just commanded to as the current purpose.

[@cottoneyejoe1able]

Art is a living creature that makes us smarter. More open to receive life. Thus, we all have art inside. We are all contributing to art. If art elevates life in you, it's the best-selling art.❤

[@onionlayers9457]

I opened youTube and swore on my life that I'll just search what I'm looking for and leave, and then this was the first video waiting for me😂🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️Thank you aperture

[@Dan-mc7xg]

Music is more than Art... Music is Life! "Your heart is a beating drum." Edit: I'd actually love to see you dive into music, specifically. Not sure what you would say, but I know I would enjoy it.

[@baxterperkins8098]

Never disappointed by this channel!!!

[@lukerowlands6120]

LaMDA creates from an average of human experience; and yet within a selection of people it is usually the unique extremes that create the popular art. Also art is an individual perspective captured in an external expression of which only the artist can ever truly experience as intended. LaMDA isn't capable of experiencing any work that it creates.

[@betterchapter]

The Art industry use to be an outlet for people to get away from the world and politics, a place to be free from it all, much like sports. But today everything has intertwined and seems to always have some agenda to push

[@Telonious_Terp]

It really feels like your vocal intonation is a pickup of how much Carl Sagan influenced you, such that in your early years you mimic his intellectual perspectives, cosmic aspirations, theatrical presentation, and of course stylized speech and distinct delivery, while perhaps growing out of the tendency to mimic, the vocal imprinting of copying your favorite scientist somehow stayed but unconsciously, resulting in genuinely sounding like Carl Sagan.

[@eyesack5824]

For me art is something that one can look at, hear, read, somehow take in and appreciate, maybe like, maybe love it? I think whatever the AI makes is also art, because it only re-shapes what we made ourselves. And we created AI in the first place, so you could say AI itself is art. Whatever it creates is also art

[@liminalb1rds158]

How art is defined depends on us, some will disagree, while some won’t.

[@BlaudracheLP]

Art is everything bringing an emotion to the eyes of the viewer. The stunning emotion that an experience brings upon your mind to make you recall it, admire it, fear it and/or reject it.

[@GHOSTY2552]

ive got chills watching this

[@MidnightMoonProductions]

Art is beautiful. Not because of the standards for it but because of the originality it can bring.

[@DeJay7]

Regarding the thumbnail: I have a 'painting' (one of 250 copies from a local artist from many years ago) which is, I kid you not, a torch glued onto the painting with its shadow drawn as if it's leaning and standing on a 3D wall, where the bottom corner is shown by a straight line. So, it's a torch, its shadow and a line. Very sophisticated.

[@ahmetdogan5685]

Art is what gives life its meaning and beauty.

[@NaisanSama]

Thanks to this video, I've regained my motivation.

[@insomaniac_uwuwu]

Regarding the fable. It is _human_ art, for it uses human values to create the story, uses human symbols (Owl = wisdom) to reflect the meanings, but also it is art only because can be appreciated by a human being, just like the rock we were talking about. Art is not the _ultimate_ concept. A pufferfish for which a love letter is a pattern on sand would not appreciate it.

[@danilorodriguez8349]

Excellent reflection... Thanks for creating such a valuable material!

[@raymarksedoon6306]

SEDOON, RAY MARK For my own point of view art is a reflection of your heart, because through this you can express your thoughts/feelings. This is the way of expressing what some people feels.

[@Accursed_Bone_Collective]

Sponsored by that business newsletter I had to subscribe to for my Business Essentials class in high school that I have not unsubscribed from even after so many years due to sheer laziness.

[@scottwinn5043]

I love this channel so much

[@thelemonhub8490]

I just woke up from a nap thinking about this video. Idk but with machines being able to create "art" I was able to come up with an analogy. Let's say you and me agree to race each other on a 1km run. You agree and it's planned and everything. I come in a car and you come in your Nike track running shoes. We both came in to race. If I drive my car to it's peak performance I'm still racing, and if you break a world record but lose you still lose. It's unfair no. Point I'm trying to get to. Just like racing advancements will be made in life. So with that different appreciation for variations for stuff will grow. Like how people prefer watching F1 over track and field. To appreciate what a machine can do.

[@aaturki84]

This episode considered to be ART... I mean i repeated saying WOW several times when it ended

[@Ozzymandius1]

Banana duct taped to a wall is the artiest art that ever arted. Don't cast a shadow on their genius. Salvador Da-who? The Vitruvian what?

[@amirbahalegharn365]

art is bringing another meaning to sth that was there or sth that was created in order to enhance those feelings that you get from your senses and the thoughts that it may invoke inside art is everywhere waiting to be discovered or taken purpose meaningfully in one way or another.

[@user-zd8dp2re8k]

Trolling is a new form of art that can spark more viral reactions than a picasso

[@ffallenangelll]

Your videos are art, bro

[@pstotto]

Visual art is the pictorial exploration of pictorial conditions. What of art like so-called performance art etc.? Art is the media exploration of media conditions. Whatever the method, the method's conditions are explored in some way.

[@BHBalast]

I don't know, but I can add that new form of art are always questioned, for example even to this day some ppl think that video games are not art despite they actually aggregate everything that art is about, a story, music, visuals, voice acting, motion capture, emotions, the play of the actors etc. I can tell what art was, but what it will be in the future? Maybe we can know it only in retrospection? :)

[@squidairleo3155]

Theses videos hit.

[@jesseshircliff2247]

Damn dawg all the ads in this video made me feel sure about what's NOT art

[@AliAkbar-sn3dt]

you end with a question, i like it

[@yacinehouari6485]

That's really weird, I was just thinking about this question yesterday and here it is, Aperture uploads a video about it the next day!! Such a weird coincidence!!! XD

[@FelixSkura]

Looking isn’t as simple as it looks. Art teaches people how to see.

[@calvingrondahl1011]

Art is creativity… Choosing something in the universe and giving it a special meaning. AI is doing that too.

[@albertmoore4445]

When we ask, "What is art?"or say, "Anything is music!", the discussion is generally a lot of modernist rhetorical drivel designed to defend the untalented artist or musician's work. The question that leads us in the right direction is: "Why art?" "Why music?" If you compose music because you want to show how successfully you can "innovate" and reject anything that might meaningfully engage our imagination and emotions, I believe you need to rethink the "why".

[@sytoplis5417]

Why should humans be special? Wouldnt it be way easier to not accept AI and animals as conscious but rather reject the idea that consciousness is something special that is more than just combining the ideas and information we already heard? This would resolve all of these questions. Thereby, things wouldnt be conscious or not, things wouldnt be art or not. It would rather create a spectrum. Beings can evaluate and learn from past information better or worse, so they are more or less conscious. Things that have been created can have a deeper or just the obvious meaning or something in between. The question now is just: Who is it to evaluate these spectrums? Is it up to us to say that nature cant create art, because these things dont have a deeper meaning or are we just not able to understand it? Maybe you could interpet this as the deeper meaning of nature and thereby make nature as a whole art (Although I honestly would think that this is a bit too far fetched). Who is it to decide? Maybe there is no art, because things dont have inherently meaning. We can only perceive things as art, because the meaning comes from the interpretation of the observer and not necessarily from the artist. So "artists" are just people creating things that convey a meaning to an observer. Although, if we would assume this as true, could there be art, when no one sees it?

[@idicula1979]

The act of living is art in itself, you know? I am the clay what of who or what should be my mold, cheapen it at your own risk we are all the masters to our strokes.

[@Healthandwealth9422]

Art is personal interpretation

[@nareshputturaya4168]

I like how he started and ended with the same question

[@Pushed2InsanityYT]

beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

[@superohitupadhyay]

It's difficult to find mistakes in your presentations but at 4:28 you mentioned 1987 but in your screen it was 1897..

[@snowman6297]

Art is very powerfull A guy got rejected in art school he made history

[@jcplays3842]

Man, what a guy, must've done some amazing things.

[@Thesixwolf6]

you mean adolf hitle

[@snowman6297]

@@Thesixwolf6 no no Germans

[@Thesixwolf6]

@@snowman6297 oh ok

[@shaimawahab5916]

I was hoping that you'd address constellations when talking about humans creating art out things that are already in nature. Like, constellations don't inherently exist. We literally saw these tiny dots scattered across the sky and started connecting them until we saw some form of images. If that isn't the most fascinating example of the human need to create art out of everything!

[@yellowstome5856]

This elephant silmply blows my mind. That's incredible.

[@abdallaom6296]

Art is subjective, but this art is bananas. Over $6m, who could've thought that price.

[@endrekoncz9547]

Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me,.... No more

[@achilleas225]

Bro ur videos are simply amazing!

[@AHRandolph]

On the part about LaMDA, AIs are trained on large pools of data for specific tasks and in language models like LaMDA it is trained with words and sentences to create words and sentences. The AI most likely is not feeling emotions and giving a genuine book review, but rather repeating the general type of response that a human would give when asked about a book. Edit: I watched like two seconds more of the video and Aperture said something similar. Now I just feel dumb

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

Quite a scary thought that we may, just may be bunch of algorithms

[@axiarchist7378]

The beautiful about art is the thing u can't explain

[@igorhq1]

I came to the conclusion that art is any creation made with deliberate, hidden, or even subconcious intention of the Creator to mean something. Even if the meaning the Creator claims it to have is not there, or it's just a facade of its actual meaning that was intended, but is secret, it is an art as long as the Creator intended it. However, intentions cannot be verified due to us having no access to other people's minds. So we cannot ever know for sure if something is art or is not. We can only guess. And if enough people with some authority guesses the same for some piece of creation, we take it as it is would be art on the terms of social agreement. But we never really know. So, what is art, You ask? Answer can be only one. I don't know.

[@jillythefoo]

I thought about this question a lot. Here is my take: Humans are intelligent. Because humans are intelligent they get bored. Because they get bored they make things in different and interesting ways to amuse themselves. If humans were not intelligent in that way, they would be like ants and other animals making things the same way all the time by instinct. Ants build colonies to serve a function. It's the same tunnels. I noticed walking through Chicago one day that all the buildings look very different. They could have built them the same, but that would have been boring. The architecture is different. People want to see and experience beauty differently, because humans get bored easily and want something more to do, see, think about, and make. The computer stops at what it's programed to do. It doesn't get bored and make things independently.

[@AJX-2]

My definition of art: any intentional human creation intended to create an emotional response.

[@PaulMielcarz]

Art is soul expression.

[@smoothlyrough512]

Art is in the eye of the beholder, nothing more, nothing less.

[@Monkey_D_Luffy56]

Richard Gomez's from Philippines created the greatest art

[@fulup1422]

Your videos are art dude ;D

[@aangela6678]

Shower Thought: If finger is a noun, why can't fing be a verb?

[@bergy8899]

kermit with extra bass is back

[@hgzmatt]

To me, art is the appreciation of beauty. And to make art is to attempt to create something beautiful. To some people it is political, sending a message about things they think should change in society. And art becomes the vehicle to do so. But I do not agree with that definition.

[@Silverdragon517]

Your videos are an epitome of exceptional excellency

[@anuragandpencil6960]

For what I think art is subjective. take a simple shattered glass for example, for many its just a glass broken in tiny pieces and which can may hurt someone, for some that pattern of the shattered glass is beutiful and its art for them, for someone in future its not just a shattered glass it tells some story like how it came to be and hence art for them.

[@_blakep]

Handwriting is also an art

[@LeSatan]

I doubt it's his. These youtubers hire writers

[@samuelalmeida6479]

@@LeSatan then its someone else making art, but its still art.

[@LeSatan]

@@samuelalmeida6479 true but I wanted clarify he has other skilled writers cuz the comment read "your writing"

[@LeSatan]

I appreciate the edit 🙏

[@samuelalmeida6479]

@@LeSatan oh, I saw it edited already 😊

[@LMV123]

I love your vids man

[@1.....279]

Very enticing video

[@misaelrivera2347]

Idk what art exactly is. But i know what it does. It improves the communication of truth through embodiment.

[@zadaniedomowekw]

Very cool material!

[@RandomStuff-bf5bs]

It depends on the artist