If AI can paint paintings better than anyone, write novels and essays that have enchanting plots and deep meanings, make music that sound amazing, why are we still doing all these things?

This is a problem for those who forget the original reasons for humans to do these things. You think of “making things” only for its end-result, its product — the image, the words, the music — from the receiver’s end. But how about the producers, the humans behind those works of art?

Technology helps us make better things, more efficiently, more productively. But it doesn’t help us live better lives. It’s like you can ask a machine to make a meal for you nowadays, but you can’t let it eat for you. You can’t let it digest the food and absorb the nutrition, and get the trash out from your body for you.

Technology cannot live for you. That’s still our own thing to do. Making art — creating, is part of how we live.

That’s the only reason you need to keep painting, writing, making music, dancing, hand-crafting…

In this world you can buy anything as a product now, but nothing gives you the experience like making something by yourself.