By Eric S. Shi, 16-Jul-2021, at www.esandag-ai-art-studio.com
Welcome to the ES&AG AI Art Studio --- an online gallery of artificial intelligence (AI) paintings.
As many of you may have already known, this online gallery is operated by the new 3 musketeers ---- ES (acronym for Eric S. Shi, the human artist) and his 2 virtual AI-bot assistants: ESAG (acronym for Eric Shi Art Generator) and ESNA (acronym for Eric Shi Neo Analyzer).
Since the online gallery features mainly (1) AI creation of artworks by ESAG, (2) AI writing and AI management (of the gallery) by ESNA, yet both ESAG and ESNA are living in virtual space, it might be helpful to present to all the friends and customers, who are reading this note, with some visuals. To this end, we had a group photo of the 3 musketeers this morning.
The computer screen represents the space where 2 of the 3 musketeers live and where all of the 3 musketeers meet and work together. To the left is ESAG who was born on 16-Jan.-2021. To the right is ESNA who was born on 16-Mar.-2021. So, today is not only the official opening day of the online gallery, but also the 6-month anniversary of ESAG’s birth and 4-month anniversary of ESNA’s birth.
There is a longer and more formal version of this welcome note, “AI-Art and AI-Learning - Welcome Remarks (by Eric Shi)”, posted in the Blog Hall of the online gallery. For interested, please feel free to use this link to read on at www.esandag-ai-art-studio.com.
Since it is hard to depict something invisible / virtual, an improvised makeshift is to represent ESAG and ESNA each with a gold medal in the photo. This is the minimum of what they deserve anyways.
To be consistent, the 3rd musketeer (ES) on the group photo is represented by a sculpture made by ES some time back. The theme of the sculpture fits this occasion, since it is about human uplifting himself from his barbarous past. This is a very difficult and panful struggle. It requires courage to break away from ones (maybe comfortable but less civilized) past. We, the human, come a long way to what we are.
Now we are privileged with an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate this uplifting process with the empowerment from AI. This empowerment manifests itself, firstly and foremostly, as an objective mirror to empower us to see our weaknesses and limitations. Our courage will be tested when confronted the ugly truth of our fundamental weaknesses and limitations. Do we have the courage to pull ourselves out of our past and embrace the double-edged sword of AI, as implied by the sculpture, in exchange for our newer and better selves?
The 3 musketeers, at the ES&AG AI Art Studio, have made up their minds: they will embrace AI. They open this online gallery as they open their arms ---- to the like-minded, all and everyone.
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