Unleashing Your Creativity
When a new student arrives at the dojo, they often fail to appreciate that karate is not just a skill, but also an art form. It is a martial art, after all, and art is the expression of human skill and imagination. We spend many hours practicing individual techniques (waza), forms (kata), and partner work (bunkai), as well as sparring (kumite) to learn how to express ourselves.
The same discipline applies to Artificial Intelligence.
The Tool and the Framework
A kata is a structured way to learn how to express ourselves through motion. Similarly, we should look at the prompts we write for AI as a kind of kata. Practicing with a structured pattern is a way to learn the language of these tools, just as a karateka uses kata to learn the language of movement.
Think of structure as your stance: If your physical posture is poor, you will be off balance and your punch will lack power. Similarly, if your instructions to the AI are vague or unstructured, the result will be generic. Anyone can throw a punch, but for it to be effective, it needs the structure imposed by the language of karate.
Expression Through Structure
In karate, kata (forms) and bunkai (partner work) are used to provide structure to help the karateka learn to express their imagination through motion. As an example, here is a video of me performing Sanshiryu. This is my expression of human skill and imagination and anyone else's version of Sanshiryu will, of course, be slightly different because each of us is different.
By learning to communicate with structure, you can use the AI to express your creativity and your art, whatever that looks like. The AI can amplify your capability, but it cannot replace your intent.
The Medium is Your Choice
Whether it is karate, dance, poetry, or digital art, bring your imagination to the tools and bend them to your will to create your artwork. One of the ways to avoid generic, robotic content is to use AI to express yourself. Train your skills with this technology like a karateka trains their forms, and you can use it to create something that is uniquely yours.
Train Smart. Train Hard. Train Often.