AI is everywhere. It can paint, write poetry, even predict stock markets. But something’s missing. Something only humans have.
Creativity. Intuition. Soul.
The Promise of AI in Art
Art is about transgressing the boundaries, breaking the rules. AI? It absorbs patterns and regurgitates them. It can mimic, say, Van Gogh or Picasso, but can it create an entirely new aesthetic? Not really.
Take AI-generated paintings. They are beautiful, but they’re not intentional. A human artist paints for a reason — an expression of emotion, a narrative, a challenge to the status quo. AI merely handles data, regurgitates what it believes you desire.
A good example? My question is — what is the AI? It went for $432,500 at auction. Impressive? Maybe. But it wasn’t AI alone. The model was trained by humans, and the best outputs were selected and given meaning by humans. People still had to shape the soul of the art.
Or, AI in Finance: Clever, Not Brilliant
The financial world loves AI. It evaluates numerals at warp speed, discovers traits, and even forecasts the financial exchange. But does it actually have a grasp of finance?
As one of the greatest investors, Warren Buffet, said, “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the Active to the Patient”. Can AI grasp that wisdom? Not quite.
Markets aren’t just numbers. They’re fueled by human emotion — fear, greed, excitement. AI can identify trends, but it cannot explain why a person panics, selling low at a loss, or buys high in an irrational bubble. That’s where the human intuition comes in.”
Recession?Remember the financial crisis of 2008? AI models could not foresee it since they based their predictions on previous data. They tone-deaf to the human greed and systemic failures that were stacking up. Michael Burry (of The Big Short) and others who saw something wrong did not only have data leading up to this, they had a gut feel.
The Human Touch Matters
AI is powerful. But it does lack something — authentic creativity. The creativity to break outside of habitual thinking. To take risks. To feel.
Artists create with not only hands but heart. For investors, winning doesn’t happen by analyzing numbers, it happens by understanding people.
AI can help. But it can’t replace us. Not yet.
The Case Against AI as an Artist or Investor
This is artificial intelligence it used for good. No doubt. It can produce stunning paintings, analyze stock trends, and even write music. But does it create? Not in the way humans do.
The Boundaries of AI’s “Creativity”
To appreciate AI’s limitations, let’s examine what it does. AI doesn’t think. It doesn’t dream or imagine. It just predicts.
Imagine a painter. They have an emotion — happiness, sadness, anger — and put that on a canvas. AI, by contrast, is shown millions of images and told to create something similar. It creates iterations of what’s been previously done.’ It doesn’t begin from zero.
That’s also why AI has a hard time being original. It can recombine, but it cannot create in the way that humans do.
Finance: A Game of Gut Instincts
AI in finance is quick, efficient, and deeply analytical. But it lacks the gut instinct.
Successful investors don’t look at data alone; they look at experience and emotion and instinct. They also read between the lines of what the numbers mean.
Take George Soros. He is best known for betting against the British pound in 1992, which netted him a billion dollars in a day. He didn’t just follow data. He felt a vulnerability in the system. That kind of insight? AI can’t replicate it.
“Making money is often a function of timing. AI can detect trends, but it can’t always forecast human-driven events. Politics, scandals, sudden shifts in consumer behavior — these are the types of things that AI has a hard time truly understanding.
The Essence of Creativity and Strategy
Real art, real investing—it’s about more than data. They require soul.
AI can produce paintings, but it won’t know the pain of heartbreak or the thrill of creation. It might predict stock movements, but it won’t feel a stewing crash before the numbers tell it.
Which is why AI, for all its might, is still a tool. A human tool, still guided by humans that are leading the way.
Will AI Ever Replace the Human Mind in Art and Finance?
AI is moving at breakneck speed. But can it ever truly supplant human creativity and intuition? Short answer: no.
Why Art Needs Emotion
Art is deeply human. A painting, a novel, a piece of music — they aren’t just mere collections of colors, words and sounds. They are carriers of emotion, of stories, of points of view.
AI lacks feeling. It doesn’t understand heartbreak, passion, nostalgia. It takes an input and produces an output, but it doesn’t feel anything. Which is why AI-generated art, for as impressive as it is, strikes me so often as…empty.
A real artist paints not because they have to, but because they must. That’s a concept that AI will never grasp.
Finance: More Than Just Math
Financial markets are not moved by numbers alone. People do.
AI can detect trends, but fumbles when facing uncertainty. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, markets plummeted in ways we could not expect. But AI models trained on old data adapted poorly while human investors were able to pivot.
Emotional are people’s decisions. They buy in a panic, they sell in fear. Finance is the science of understanding people. AI doesn’t do that well.
The Final Verdict
AI is a strong helper, but a bad substitute. It can assist artists, guide investors and accelerate processes. But the human mind? That remains irreplaceable.
The Human Element Missing in Art and Finance from AI
AI is computer-powerful, but it lacks something — something human.
The Art AI Can’t Create
Artificial Intelligence generated art — cool right? But let’s be honest. It lacks heart.
The real artists make art that comes from lived experience. AI? It resamples pixels according to patterns. It doesn’t know what it is to lose, to rejoice, to love.
Take Picasso. His art emerged through pain, through war, love. AI isn’t growing emotionally, it’s just learning statistically.
Finance, human intuition, the role of
Financial markets aren’t purely rational; they’re psychological. It can track data, but it doesn’t know why markets move.
A great investor doesn’t just crunch numbers. They read between the lines. They sense opportunity. AI knows patterns, but doesn’t feel moving market over time.
The Future: AI and Humans Together
AI isn’t about to replace artists or investors. Instead, it’s a tool — a powerful one. But at the end of the day I think true creativity, true intuition, true genius? That’s still a human thing.