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Why You Soon Won’t Be Able to Avoid AI—At Work or At Home

Why You Soon Won’t Be Able to Avoid AI

Joe Magee

“Soon, most of us will use tools like these, even if indirectly, unless we want to risk falling behind. We will face a growing number of communications generated with AI assistance, plans made with their input, and even products they helped inspire. Productivity-enhancing technology tends to improve our output or make it more plentiful, forcing people to change how they […]

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Will AI Write TV Shows in the Future?

Will AI Write TV Shows in the Future

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Not anytime soon. It’s more likely that in the coming years AI will become a tool used to brainstorm ideas, sift through script submissions and provide building blocks for show concepts or dialogue as humans do the creative heavy-lifting. The faster applications of AI are in areas like visual effects. That said, the two sides hashed out issues in the […]

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Is art generated by artificial intelligence real art? – Harvard Gazette

Is art generated by artificial intelligence real art

Illustration by Judy Blomquist / Harvard Staff

Writer, animator, architect, musician, and mixed-media artist detail potential value, limit of works produced by AI Most at risk are commercial genres with easily recognizable styles and tropes. Even something like autofiction with its ruminating first-person narrators is easily mimicked — but what will be missing, I’m guessing, is genuine vision from living in a specific physical world. -Novelist and […]

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Self-Adjusting Netflix Shows? A.I. Prompts as Artworks? Three Artists Debate What Technology Has in Store for Creative Work

Self-Adjusting Netflix Shows - A.I. Prompts as Artworks

photo: Jason Crowley, courtesy of BFA

Paglen anticipates Netflix shows adapting their narratives viewer-by-viewer to suit tastes, and Errazuriz predicts a world in which becoming a master of tailored A.I. prompts will be an essential skill for artists. “For now most prompts are a few lines long,” Errazuriz says, “but soon these could run for pages, and the number of parameters the artist puts into the […]

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