Making Sense - Having Sense: On Concepts and Perceptions of Creative AI
Abstract: Generative AI has entered our cultural practices with much force recently. People use it to write, think, discuss, get advice, even as tarot readers or oracles. Online systems can create realistic texts, images, videos and music that find their way as “content” on social media and other media channels. But there is an increased unease bubbling underneath this development: we find expressions of anger, offence and frustration as the artificial has begun to perform tasks that in our culture was seen as uniquely human: creativity.
In this talk I will report on my experience of running a research project called Intelligent Instruments, where we develop musical instruments with AI. I will explore how people engage with notions of agency, intentionality, and understanding of those systems, even their emotional expression, and frame it in the context of strong AI, the symbol grounding problem and recent developments of embodied AI.
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