I explain to participants in my Generative AI workshops that the technology is incredibly powerful, but we must never forget it is just a tool. Tools expand our abilities and get things done more quickly, but we humans must still call the shots.
To illustrate this, quite literally: Last night, I sketched a giant robot and child on my iPad (left image). Then I fed the sketch into Midjourney and used its new “Retexture” feature to generate an oil painting. I tried over 20 prompts before I was satisfied with the result that you see here (right image).
While Midjourney isn’t very faithful to my original robot design, I can accept its interpretation because my original vision remains intact. Gen AI cannot know what is on our minds, so our role as humans is to guide it to deliver our desired results.
This is how we will work alongside the machines from here on.