• Narendra Choudhury, a Noida-based policy researcher, uses AI to depict Delhi snow.
• His innovative use of Artificial Intelligence resulted in a viral social media post.
• AI has bypassed the futility of spending hours on the same thing. You can create things instantly, he says.

Noida-based researcher uses AI to depict Delhi snow. The cold wave in North India is not only creating winter chills and shivering, but it is also inspiring some people’s creativity. While living in Delhi may feel like living in a hill station. Choudhury’s innovative use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) resulted in a viral social media post.

Choudhury, who works full-time as a policy researcher, rarely has time to pursue his hobbies of painting, photography, and filmmaking. “AI has bypassed the futility of spending hours, if not days, on the same thing. You can create things instantly,” he says, adding that this medium is a tremendous tool, particularly for budding artists on a tight budget.

Choudhury feels AI is much less time taking, and adds, “Most people are slowly moving away from only quality, and prioritising speed and quantity. The audience wants more and more content, and as fast as possible… A lot of filmmakers would need to create storyboards by hand before even starting the process of making a film and that takes a lot of time and money. But with AI, all you have to do is feed in a bunch of prompts based on your imagination and it can create the wildest of the visuals you need, in mere seconds!”

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However, Choudhury believes that AI-generated art has a drawback. “The AI space is very new and collaborative, but it’s rapidly replacing the human elements. At the end of the day, it’s a machine which is regurgitating broad inputs and stereotypes being fed to it in bulk,” he continues.

With the pen replacing the quill, computers replacing typewriters, and stylus replacing the paintbrush, times are always ’changing. “Today, AI is democratising the visual arts,” feels Choudhury, adding, “Creativity is no longer being hindered by the inability to paint or operate Photoshop. You can be on an equal footing with artists the world over, and I see it as a logical progression.”