So You Want to Be a Punctual Engineer: Critical Careers of the Future

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The designers have a great understanding of how stories are concisely shaped with an eye for design. Recently, cartoonist extraordinaire Roz Chast appeared in the New Yorker causing DALL-E imagery and I was immediately drawn to her prompts beyond the actual machine output.

The title of the article, "DALL-E, make me another Picasso, please" is a pun on Lenny Bruce's old joke about a bottled genie giving an old man whatever he wants. The old man asks the genie to "make me a malt" and poof! genius turns it into a milkshake.

Like the gift of genius, AIs are powerful but unruly and open to abuse, making the intercession of a speedy engineer a new and important work in the field of data science. These are people who understand that in building demand, they will rely on shrewd skill and perseverance to extract a good (and not harmful) result from the mysterious soul of a machine. The best AI engineers would be those who actually consider whether there is a need for more derivative Picasso art, or what obligations should be considered before asking a machine to plagiarize the work of a famous painter.

Lately, concerns have centered on whether DALL-E will change the already eternally muddy definition of artistic genius. But asking who qualifies as creative misses the point. What is art and who can claim the title of artist are philosophical (and rarely ethical) questions that have been debated for millennia. They do not address the fundamental fusion that occurs between data science and the humanities. Successful rapid crafting, whether for DALL-E or GPT-3 or any future algorithm-based image and language model, will require not only an engineer's understanding of how machines learn, but a in-depth knowledge of art history, literature and librarianship. as well.

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Artists and designers who claim this type of AI will end their careers are certainly invested in how this integration will progress. Vox recently released a video titled "What AI Art Means for Human Artists" which explores their anxiety in a way that acknowledges that there is very real evolution at hand despite the current scarcity. of "quick crafting" and word forging involved. People are only just beginning to realize that we are in danger of reaching a point where trademark protection of a word or phrase would not protect intellectual property in the same way as it does now. . What aspect of a prompt could we even copyright? How would derivative works be recognized? Could there be a metadata tag on each image indicating whether it is "appropriate or authorized for AI consumption?" No one seems to mention these speed bumps in the rush to get a personal MidJourney account.

Alex Shoop, DataRobot engineer and AI systems design expert, shared some thoughts on this. "I think an important aspect of the 'engineering' part of 'fast engineering' will include adhering to best practices such as robust testing, repeatable results, and using safe and secure technologies," he said. -he declares. "For example, I can imagine that a fast engineer would set up my...