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Can A.I. Make Great Art?

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Tv & Film, Arts, Music

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Technology is transforming the creative economy and ideas about what "art" even is.

Guest: Drew Harwell

Host: Lizzie O'Leary


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0:30.0

Drew Harwell covers technology for the Washington Post.

0:36.0

So he's not usually describing art in granular detail.

0:40.0

But in this case, I asked him to.

0:42.0

A piece called Teatre d'Opres Spéciel.

0:46.0

That's French for Space Opera Theatre.

0:49.0

It's this gorgeous looking painting that is, you know, gold and red

0:55.0

and it looks almost like this giant baroque hall where there are these three women in these

1:03.0

just flowing red and white robes and it's this giant kind of chamber

1:09.0

and they're looking out to this big circular window that is so bright.

1:14.0

You can only really see like a glimmer of like mountains in the distance.

1:20.0

And it looks very sort of like sci-fi and mysterious but also kind of old world.

1:27.0

It's a really cool, cool image.

1:30.0

What's so important about it?

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