Everyone's talking about AI, and you're being pestered to use it every time you open your phone. But are you aware the extent that AI has taken over how much of what you see and hear online? A study by Five Percent reported a few weeks ago that 52 percent of all new text online is now generated by AI. Seventy-four percent of all writing online now shows signs of "involvement" of AI. The French … [Read more...]
Not Really a Manifesto, I guess, but Perhaps a Framework for Thinking about AI and Art…
Everywhere we look, we're confronted now with AI. Or at least the claims of AI. Your WORD document offers to draft something for you. Your GMail promises to better organize your inbox. Your Reels and TikToks are flooded with annoying ludicrous AI video. AI promises to change everything. Even if you don't want it to. But there probably isn't anyone in creative industries not focused on the … [Read more...]
How Digital AI Twins could Transform how We Make Art
For all of the explosion of data in the past couple of decades, it's remarkable how disconnected and crudely measured much of the world around us still is. Weather forecasts, for example, have improved enormously in recent years, yet still aren't reliably accurate. The problem has been three-fold -- not enough ability to measure, incomplete data, and not enough computing power to make sense of the … [Read more...]
The Essential AI: Translating the Art of What We See, Hear and Experience
AI is getting very good at translating text and speech from one language to another, transposing not just words, but also meaning, and in real time. I previously wrote about the implications for opening up the world's culture from behind language barriers (for example, only three percent of the world's literature is translated into English). But in thinking about ways to explain the conceptual … [Read more...]