“Two speakers at the ACMI FACT Symposium took a critical stance amid pressures for those in the arts and cultural sectors to jump on the AI bandwagon.
‘The information age has ended, and we have entered the age of noise,’ declared Eryk Salvaggio at ACMI’s Future of Arts, Culture and Technology Symposium (FACT) 2024 on Wednesday (14 February). In the session titled ‘Looking at the Machine’, Salvaggio assessed the state of digital and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in relation to how we consume images, sound, knowledge … everything that’s “out there”.
He continued: ‘The entirety of human visual culture has a new name. We used to call these collections archives or museum holdings or libraries; today, we call them datasets.’“