Artificial Incunabula

The term 'Incunabula' refers to the earliest printed works (mid-1400s to 1500s). These groundbreaking works, while innovative, often sought to mimic handwritten manuscripts, requiring additional manual labor. Artificial Incunabula are the early creative outputs of generative AI, characterized by significant human intervention to achieve desired results. Examples include early machine translation and AI-generated images. Many early AI applications focused on replicating human capabilities rather than leveraging AI's potential for unique and innovative creations. Instead of merely mimicking human work, generative AI should be used as a tool to assist human creativity and productivity. Generative AIs are not capable of the refinement necessary to provide the attention to detail, focus on higher-level thinking and problem-solving; instead, they could focus on automating mundane tasks and generating new ideas that align with the processing power AIs are capable of.