Mac Mini Concept Art

[Parowdy]

yes

Look up the term „art“ in a dictionary then.

 

[8483011]

Look up the term „art“ in a dictionary then.

"the quality, production, expression, or realm of things that conform to accepted aesthetic principles of beauty, show imagination and skill, and have more than ordinary meaning and importance." I think AI is capable of generating something that fits this definition. That's from Dictionary dot com. Merrian defines it as "skill acquired by experience, study, or observation". As far as I've seen, AI is great at aquiring skills. Now I think there are certainly levels to art (as someone who works in the industry), but I don't know why you wouldn't call it art just because it's generated.

 

[Heat_Fan89]

I don't have a problem with the placement of the power button either. I rarely use it tbh.

 

[Parowdy]

"the quality, production, expression, or realm of things that conform to accepted aesthetic principles of beauty, show imagination and skill, and have more than ordinary meaning and importance." I think AI is capable of generating something that fits this definition. That's from Dictionary dot com. Merrian defines it as "skill acquired by experience, study, or observation". As far as I've seen, AI is great at aquiring skills. Now I think there are certainly levels to art (as someone who works in the industry), but I don't know why you wouldn't call it art just because it's generated.

Because it’s a blend of actual art, not something that naturally came to be. AI doesn’t acquire skills, it’s being feed with inputs until it gives the desired output. It is in many ways similar or close to how humans create thoughts, the first kind of videos I saw and many pictures looked like what you, at least I, might see during a dream.
Still, artificial intelligence is creating artificial art, there’s more to a brain (like thing) creating art than data and electrons.
Personally, I was also looking at the Oxford Dictionary of English which says „the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power“, but I recognize that in other definitions the human part doesn’t matter.

In my opinion, AI art is no more or less art than a robot on wheels randomly spray painting a wall, if anything the creator/s or operators are artist as they create it, in an extended sense, through the machine. AI is just more sophisticated as it’s trained on real people‘s creations, ripping them of their expressions and replacing their societal and industrial standing, and is tuned to replicate and modify its inputs.

 

[anshuvorty]

This would be great for the entry-level Mac mini, but if you were BTO with the higher-end chips, there is no way this design would facilitate adequate cooling for them. But, I agree, it's great!

 

[Parowdy]

The first picture seems to be drawn in vector software such as Illustrator. The second picture is a 3D render. I don't think it's AI generated.
Why they couldn't keep the power button consistent, I don't know..


That said, this design needs VESA mount points and it would be awesome.

Why would you render the „same“ thing twice though, and do so differently? It’s not like both pictures couldn’t have been 3D renders, there was no need to create the first concept in a vector software and then create an entirely new model in a different program, showing a different machine/concept.

 

[waloshin]

Not a great concept at all! Way too thin..