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How do we preserve our cultures, our family histories,

and our larger histories with each progressive generation.

New Yorker cartoonist Amy Kurzwell confronted this question by engaging in a sweeping AI art project.

She discusses how she used AI to help her travel through time and

after the talk sits down with me to expand on her ideas. I really enjoyed our conversation

so stick around it's all coming up after a break.

And now our TED Talk of the day.

I love being a cartoonist because I can travel anywhere.

I can visit historical artifacts and make improvements.

I can voyage to mystical lands and solve problems.

I can bring objects to life and I can make those objects think and talk and I can send those objects wherever I want them to go.

I became a cartoonist to travel through space and time and I became a cartoonist to travel through space and time.

And I became a graphic memoirist

because the place I wanted to go was the past.

I come from a legacy of dramatic stories and lost characters.

My grandmother, Lily, on my mother's side,

was born in Morza, Poland, the oldest of four sisters.

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