We are reaching a point where artificial intelligence is taking on a lot of tasks that we have become accustomed to performing ourselves. Is even already getting replace the hands of an artist or a writer for certain tasks. Although it would really be necessary to see if it would be necessary to put a limit to its capacities.
This is where the Hayao Miyazaki experience which makes it clear to Nobuo Kawakami, founder of Dwango, who is in charge of what would become the Japanese YouTube, that he is terrified of witnessing an animation made with nothing more than the artificial intelligence of a computer, as seen in the video shared.
The video was taken from the NHK documentary Owaranai Hito Miyazaki Hayao (The Man Who Isn't Made: Hayao Miyazaki) which was released last month in Japan. In it, Miyazaki watches a demonstration of a grotesque piece of animation made with AI (artificial intelligence).
He makes his opinion very clear to the work of the artists who they are speechless before the genius of traditional animation:
Am tremendously upset. If you really want to do something as scary as this, go ahead and do it. I would never incorporate this technology into my work. I feel like it's an insult to life itself.
Miyazaki's reaction is understood, as he is one of the boosters of traditional animation, so it doesn't take us by surprise either. But the appearance of this video clip has raised some questions about the state of artificial intelligence today and the implications it has for art itself.
The funny thing is that Miyazaki himself iIt will include CG animation techniques in his next 12-minute short Boro, the caterpillar. A clash between the digital and the traditional that continues to be in the spotlight and that geniuses like Miyazaki bring to light again.
A Studio Ghibli from which we usually bring news.
The collateral damages of all task automation processes are always the same: more unemployment.
All these irresponsible inventions result in less work for people, the disappearance of professions and their replacement by products of poor quality or that anyone can create with just one click. With just one click many trades have also disappeared and huge fortunes have been generated for only a few.
Personally, I think that this positive vision of the myth of technological advance is good enough, of how society is going to change, blah, blah, blah, for some it has changed it for the worse.
Automatic gas stations, ATMs in supermarkets, ATMs in banks, vending machines, machines to sell tickets for metro or concert, or travel, all this means more people unemployed, more money for a few, And the funny thing is that people have become used to everything being free and easy and the same is happening with cultural products, and the money they have left is not spent on books, records or films that can be downloaded from the internet at a very low price , the internet survives from the looting of the work of creators who often do not receive a single penny for their work.
I have been following your blog for years and I always find interesting things to show my students, I admire the work of Studio Ghibli and I use their films in my classes so that students value the works of art and animation as the product of a team of many people , I find this type of initiative insulting and tremendously stupid that seeks to replace the human being in everything. But they already say it, the one who spits towards the sky sooner or later will receive what he deserves.
Nothing else, congratulations on this excellent blog and encourage you to continue like this.
Thank you for your comment Jose Antonio! The truth is that it is an incredible moment that we are living, but it is also difficult due to the large number of changes it involves. Relegating machines to do jobs that we have done all our lives, and not looking for a solution for those who are replaced by a robot or a program, the truth is that it is something we will have to face sooner or later.
It is the evolution itself and we will have to find ourselves to try to find a balance, since we do not realize the large amount of information that they take from us by offering us so many things for free. What we contribute is of great value to these large companies, so it would not be too much to ask that it be returned in some way. But what has been said, there is currently no way to know how it will be done; We only have geniuses like Miyazaki facing a truth that is painful but is like that.
Regards!
I will answer both.
No, all these jobs do not result in less employment, but perhaps even more. When it comes to cinema, there are many tool developers that never existed before. And no, these are not poor quality products. Without going any further we have Pixar as the greatest exponent. Or Klaus, the recent Spanish film that is in 2D with a visual aspect that confuses between 2 and 3 dimensions.
and with a single click, many opportunities have appeared. Let's imagine, for example, Etsy.com and how many artisans have been able to see their items made and bought that would otherwise be more complicated. And what about Kickstarter? What about systems where you can self-publish your books? they are job opportunities that are much more accessible to many more people.
And no, people have not gotten used to everything being free. People tend to pay for what they like. If for decades Hollywood (for example) has accustomed its audience to rather medium quality films, viewers, for something of rather medium quality, have no problem consuming it for free at a resolution that would be shameful.
But we have Netflix, Amazon prime Video, HBO, Spotify and a long etcetera that shows that people don't want everything for free. So that fallacy falls under its own weight. It always has. Weren't people paying money for megapuload premium service to download?
If the creators do not see a single penny for their work, as in the case of Arévalo who the other day said in the anthill that he never saw a penny for his gas station cassettes for which he would have become a millionaire or that of his friend Lucia Etxeberria, who said she was going to stop writing because of one of her 20 € book she only saw 2 clean.
If of a work of yours, you only see 10% for each sale, do you seriously think that whoever is stealing is the one who downloads and not the chain of intermediaries? Basically.
As for Studio Ghibli… it has been too lenient with a capitalist market in which it lives or lived. It has not been able to manage its assets well. How?
Um… let's go to Etsy.com and say "Totoro." From absolutely gorgeous portals, music boxes, cookie cutters, dresses, purses… .. and what's left on the next 242 pages. And we leave aside the rest of the characters in the house.
Ghibli should have known better how to sell its own assets, know how to make a better profit in order to have more healthy accounts. We are in the era of merchandising. Game apart from video games, as a chain of stores, an interesting percentage of profits comes from this type of material. Even the famous Funko Pop !!!! . It is a shame, but I understand that they did not want to go through that area and that their interest was always one, but I suppose it would have been a necessary evil.
As for what is said about jobs…. We are headed for a gray schism, where we either learn to do things right or we go down. In my "Utopian" society it would be simple.
Companies based on their turnover (and there should be a serious taxation and not like that of the European Union), they should pay 80 or 85% taxes. It's stupid, but you have robots that manufacture 24 hours a day and no holidays and they don't get bad.
Everyone on the street, but that nonsense in taxes is transformed into a Universal Basic Income. You give people enough to pay for basic necessities, that is, housing, food, water, electricity, clothes, studies, etc… But…. Does everyone like to have Netflix, go out to dinner, go on vacation, etc ...? Well, you get to work. How if there is no work?
In another new jobs. As people will not have to work for a living, they will be able to dedicate themselves to being able to study whatever they want, really and we will have a society that occupies its working time in something that really feels that it contributes something to their lives and that of others. People will spend time studying what interests them. And this will also be closely related to new study methodologies such as Montessori.
If to that we add that it is not that there are fewer jobs, but that new ones were formed and many of them related to humanities and people, such as medicine and health care, such as psychology (mental problems have overtaken cancer for a long time and we have a significant deficit in health in that sense), but also creative positions, art, etc….
It's a fucking utopia ... but hey.