Our creative relationship with AI is just beginning | K Allado-McDowell

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🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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K Allado-McDowell has co-written three books with AI, so they speak from experience when they say that nurturing a creative relationship with these systems can open minds and make new worlds possible. Before giving the stage over to a performance of "Song of the Ambassadors" -- their otherworldly opera, also co-created with AI -- Allado-McDowell presents three principles for a future where machines preserve and even enhance what it means to be human.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:10.7	I'm Elise Hugh, it's Ted Talks Daily.
0:13.2	Today's talk is from an AI collaborator.
0:16.4	But what does that mean?
0:18.0	Kay Alado McDowell is creating a new kind of art,
0:21.6	but co-creating it with AI.
0:24.2	In their Ted 2023 talk, Kay shares how they're using AI
0:28.1	to preserve and enhance the best parts of being human.
0:32.4	After a short break.
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