When I first entered the studio I had no idea what to expect. I had never done AI art or any type of AI-generated stuff. I learned a lot over the course of the studio about how these different programs work. I still don't fully understand how they work but I have a much bigger understanding. I went into the studio having seen some of this AI art on different social media platforms. I had no idea that it could be as free and creative as it was. I developed my skill of prompting the AI to get “better” images. I say “better” in the sense of the image is more to my liking and more specific. My opinion of this kind of art has not really changed that much. I still think it is super cool and creative, although now I do have an understanding of how it could take away some people's jobs. It has the potential to make designers obsolete in a way. They will still be needed in some fields but all of their creative work could be done by AI. I also think that this AI for some people is doing all the work. For my project, I still needed to make the sculpture and things like that but for other projects, the AI could just design the entire project for them. It is a super useful and new tool, but I do think that it can be abused. 

For my project, I used AI to help come up with some more stylistic choices. For example, for the robot arm, I asked the AI to design a medial robot arm. This helped me create the arm. Although the project was an art piece I did end up using Chat GPT just as much as Midjoney. The programs both helped influence my project, Chat GPT came up with the name and helped me focus on what field of AI and robotics I wanted to focus on. Midjorney helped make creative design-based choices. It surprised me how well these programs could basically read my mind. It felt weird to see how well these programs could recreate what I was thinking about, or the opposite. Make ideas that I would never have thought about. It was annoying to not get what you wanted out of Midjorney. Sometimes the AI would come up with something completely different than what I was thinking, in a bad way. I think that integrating AI into my project helped me develop many ideas. It also made me think twice about many different aspects of my project. 

I don't think I will use these tools too much in the future. I may use them to come up with titles for essays or to make images for different presentations. The reason for this is that I don't think I will find it that helpful. I think that I can come up with and develop most of the ideas I will need in life. Being able to develop those ideas is also a necessary skill in life. Not being able to come up with ideas renders you effectively useless. If you ever have a problem then how are you going to fix it? You would need to come up with an idea. I think that it is not worth losing a skill to make life a little bit easier. The more work you put into life the better your results will be.