George Zarkadakis (GZ): Your book centers around AI. Can you give me a brief overview of the angle of your book?
Arthur Miller (AM): My goal in this book is to explore machine creativity with focus on AI-created art, literature and music. I ask whether machines can have characteristics of human creativity and so be creative like us, such as competitiveness, unpredictability, and emotions and then evolve a creativity of their own. Artist in the Machine looks at the upside of AI, how it can inspire us, increase our own creativity, and so add to the quality of our lives. […]
Read full article: Five Questions with Arthur I. Miller and George Zarkadakis Part I published in The Mit Press on December 2, 2020.
AM: Your book centers around AI. Can you give me a brief overview of the angle of your book?
GZ: In Cyber Republic I aim to respond to two big concerns about how intelligent machines are impacting our politics and economics. The first concern is how AI algorithms in social media platforms are manipulating public opinion, spread fake news, and exacerbate political polarization; in my book I suggest that we should develop a new type of AI algorithms that empower citizen deliberation and help drive consensus – and I describe how this could take place in the context of citizen assemblies.
Read full article: Five Questions with Arthur I. Miller and George Zarkadakis Part II published in The Mit Press on December 9, 2020.