Art and science have always influenced each other, but AI provides a medium for these spheres to fuse and create new forms of expression and discovery. […]
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Machine Creativity on FUTURES Podcast #14
My conversation with Luke Robert Mason on how machines are challenging our understanding of what it means to be creative. […]
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Arthur I. Miller discusses his book The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity with Chris Richardson. […]
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Go grandmaster Lee Sedol recently announced he was retiring from the game because “there is an entity that can never be defeated”: AI. As readers likely remember, an artificial intelligence known as AlphaGo defeated Lee in 2016. The grandmaster later commented that AlphaGo had displayed “human intuition.” AI is in the news regularly these days, but one […]
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Ross Goodwin has had an extraordinary career. After playing about with computers as a child, he studied economics, then became a speech writer for President Obama, writing presidential proclamations, then took a variety of freelance writing jobs.
One of these involved churning out business letters—he calls it freelance ghostwriting. The letters were all pretty much the same, so he figured out an algorithm that would generate form letters, using a few samples as a database. […]
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