In the age of AI art, what can originality look like? | Eileen Isagon Skyers
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🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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What happens when human and machine creativity meet? From an AI model trained on classic works to generate a seemingly infinite stream of portraits to a neural network that envisions otherworldly life-forms in impossible detail, media art curator Eileen Isagon Skyers showcases mind-bending art that embraces our increasingly technological future, showing how AI can stretch the scope of human imagination and help create worlds we could never design alone.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily. |
| 0:14.2 | Where does your mind go when you think about the technological future? |
| 0:17.9 | For media art creator, Elaine Easegan-Skyers, the future will mean multiplying all the creative |
| 0:24.5 | possibilities at our fingertips and beyond. |
| 0:28.2 | When her Ted 2023 talk, she lays out her vision after a short break. |
| 0:33.3 | Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant. |
| 0:38.5 | Welcome to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes Us Tick. |
| 0:43.4 | I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating |
| 0:47.8 | people to explore how they think and what we should all rethink. |
| 0:53.2 | This season, we're exploring how AI chatbots are changing work and life. |
| 0:57.4 | So I post on social media every single day, and starting about December 5th, I would |
| 1:01.6 | say every single post I've written, someone will comment, did chat to me, T-Ripus. |
| 1:06.6 | Whether I can detect it or not, I have an audience of million plus that is saying, I don't |
| 1:13.4 | trust that, I don't trust that, I don't trust that, and so it's this battle of proving |
| 1:17.9 | to the world that you can be trustworthy. |
| 1:19.8 | It's a very strange situation to be in and out of the classroom. |
| 1:23.8 | And then follow Rethinking with Adam Grant, wherever you're listening. |
| 1:31.4 | I want you to envision a single piece of artwork generated by artificial intelligence. |
| 1:38.4 | When most of us think of AI art, we're all probably picturing something totally different. |
| 1:45.0 | Today, with machine learning models like dolly, stable diffusion, and mid-journey, we've |
| 1:50.3 | seen AI produce everything from strange life forms to imaginary influencers, to entirely |
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