How AI is changing art. Plus: winter cooking

Life and Art from FT Weekend

Forhecz Topher

Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This weekend, we learn about AI-generated art. Type any sentence, such as “Sea otter with a pearl earring by Johannes Vermeer” into a website, and you’ll get an uncanny visual approximation created entirely by AI — with no input from humans. Our gaming critic Tom Faber joins Lilah to explore what impact it could have on human creativity. Then, we talk about deep winter cooking with the chefs behind our food column: Honey and Co. Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer give us tons of ideas, from soup to shanks to citrus salads.

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We love hearing from you! You can email us at [email protected]. We’re on Twitter @ftweekendpod, and Lilah is on Instagram and Twitter @lilahrap.

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Links:

– Tom’s magazine cover, ‘The Golden Age of AI-generated art is here’, including AI-generated images: https://on.ft.com/3CIlY3V

– You can make your own AI art at openai.com/dall-e-2. FT readers have submitted some great ones here: https://on.ft.com/3iztEOV

– Honey and Co’s latest recipe, a delicious tomato and rice soup with basil oil: https://on.ft.com/3GDpg9w

– Cabbage stuffed with beef, rice and prunes: https://on.ft.com/3W1xJZP

– Winter jams, spreads and chutneys: https://on.ft.com/3kdK4ge

– A collection of citrus recipes, from treacle-cured salmon to lemon fizz: https://on.ft.com/3X8zNk9

– Their cookbooks are called Honey and Co the cookbook, Honey and Co at home, Golden (which has baking recipes), and Chasing Smoke: cooking over fire around the levant

– Tom is on Twitter @_TomFaber. Itamar and Sarit are on Instagram @honeyandco.

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Original music by Metaphor Music. Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco

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0:00.0	I'm sitting in the studio and I'm looking at an image.
0:05.3	My colleague Tom Faber made this image.
0:08.0	You know the artist Damien Hurst, who created that piece that's a shark suspended in formaldehyde?
0:13.7	It's kind of inspired by his work.
0:15.9	This is my Damien Hirst sculpture of Winnie the Pooh.
0:19.7	Oh, this is very good.
0:21.8	Wow.
0:21.9	I just feel like you could see these in a gallery.
0:24.2	Yeah, they're just sort of like floating Winnie the Poos.
0:27.3	They do look like they're kind of floating in formaldehyde like the shark.
0:33.5	Tom's our gaming critic.
0:35.2	He writes a lot about technology and the future.
0:38.5	And the trippy thing about this image is that it looks just like something Damien Hurst could have made.
0:44.9	But he didn't make it. And Tom didn't either. The image was entirely auto-generated by artificial intelligence.
0:52.9	Tom just typed a prompt into a website.
0:55.0	It's called Dolly.
0:57.0	The prompt says Damien Hearst, sculpture of Winnie the Pooh, cut in half, suspended in formaldehyde.
1:03.0	It's got almost all of that, but none of them are cut in half.
1:06.0	No, that's a lot.
1:08.0	You're asking one thing too many from this thing.
1:12.5	Dali is spelled D-A-L-E.
1:16.1	It's a portmanteau of Wali, the Pixar robot, and Salvador Dali.
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