it would need to understand shading, layering, strokes etc.. and how utilize them to get pleasant effects.
idk how a computer would deal with the unpredictability of a medium like water color. axidraw looks more like a printer thats using a pencil instead of ink.
The number of people working in agriculture was divided by c. 6 in the US [0], despite the population being multiplied by c. 3.5.
Sure, automation increased demand for food, but demand did not increase enough to not destroy 5/6th of farmers jobs.
Now this may not be a bad thing at all, that's not the point, but I am not sure "hey demand for art will increase but 5 out of 6 artist jobs will no longer exist!" is a super hopeful statement to artists.
- will the increase in the quantity of artwork being bought (assuming there is one) compensate the decrease in price for each piece of art?
Clearly for software, _so far_, the increase in productivity / decrease in price has led to such a big increase in demand for software that some programmers are better off - I say _some_ because many jobs within the software industry stopped existing.
Yet if we look at something like agriculture, there has been some increase in demand in food products(e.g. much more meat is being sold), but one can only eat so much - so most of the increase in productivity has led to way fewer people working as farmers, and not much increase in farmers income.
No "these are tools to replace farmers - these are tools farmers can use to do more and better work".
Basically people are making statements about the elasticity of demand with respect to prices for prices & quantities no one has ever observed. If making a piece of art is now 1/2 (random number) the cost thanks to AI, will people buy 50% more? 100% more? 1000% more? I have no idea and I am not sure why people think they do.
> for a wide class of probability distributions, no more than a certain fraction of values can be more than a certain distance from the mean. Specifically, no more than 1/k^2 of the distribution's values can be k or more standard deviations away from the mean.
IQ is (if I recall correctly) normally distributed with a standard deviation of 15. So for a distance of 1.3... standard deviation (i.e. a distance of 20), you can't have more than 1/1.3...^2 = 56.25% of the population so far from the mean (below 80 or above 120), or 28.125% _above_ 120.
It's quite surprising because ever since the "credibility revolution" [0], a major critique of economics is that it focuses too much on issues that are well suited to "validating via observation" as you call it, rather than issues that are actually important. For instance, more looking at the effect of soccer victories on inter-ethnic trust [1], fewer grand theories of development.
So you just need to pair DallE with an axidraw?