Javed Akhtar: Can AI fall in love with someone?
Legendary lyricist-screenwriter
Javed Akhtar
believes that artificial intelligence will never surpass the emotional depth that artistes possess. He says, 'When it comes to creativity, AI will always go for data and will take out from whatever so-called creative things that are already existing.
Most of the data that is readily available is below average or substandard, so AI will take stuff from that.'
The writer emphasised that art requires individual perception, which machines lack. He adds, 'Real art, real creativity, is rare. Most of the art is emulative, copied and unoriginal. AI depends on previous data, but real art does not. It depends on life and very personal experiences.'
He further explained, 'Creativity is a process.
Can AI fall in love with someone? Can it get upset unnecessarily, can it be depressed for a while, can it be excited for no reason at all, can AI dislike somebody? It can't! You have to be equally unreasonable (to be creative) also because all creativity is a combination of reason and being unreasonable. It is a combination of a conscious mind and a subconscious mind. Is it possible or will it be possible in the near future for artificial intelligence to do that? For a machine all this is not possible, but our human mind does it.
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Akhtar feels that while AI may competently imitate styles and create serviceable works, it cannot create masterpieces like a Monalisa or a Shakespearean play. Urging balance, he signed off, 'Let's not
get frightened of AI, because it can also be of great help, as long as there is logic and it is dealing with facts and reality.'
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