LibGuides: MTC Reads 2023-24: Artificial Intelligence: Creativity and AI

AI as Subject

Art

Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982
Exhibition at LACMA
Digital Art in 9 Minutes: From Early Computing Technologies To Crypto NFT Hype 💻
Video from Curious Muse
Editorial cartoons and AI
Tjeerd Royaards, Cartoon Movement, Jan. 27, 2023
If art is how we express our humanity, where does AI fit in?
Zach Winn, MIT News Office, Jun. 15, 2023
Revisit the Dawn of the Digital Age Through These 9 Key Works From LACMA’s Exhibition on Early Computer Art
Min Chen, artnet.com, Feb. 17, 2023

Written Word

How ChatGPT and AI are affecting the literary world
Christianna Silva, mashable.com, Mar. 3, 2023
Ray Bradbury on War, Recycling, and Artificial Intelligence
Franco Laguna Correa, JSTOR Daily, Jan. 22, 2020

There Will Come Soft Rains
Short story by Ray Bradbury

"Tideline"
Short story by Elizabeth Bear, 2007

Watch an A.I. Learn to Write by Reading Nothing but
Aatish Ghatia, New York Times, Apr. 27, 2023

Poetry in Response to AI and Technology

"The Artificial Policeman"
Henry Crawford, Poets Reading the News, Jul. 25, 2019
At First, I Simply Did: Laugh
Larry Thacker, Poets Reading the News, Mar. 9, 2018
Ghosts in the Machine
Chaundra Steele, Poets Reading the News, May 22, 2019
Self-Sleeping Car Turns Out The Lights
Jill Talbot, Poets Reading the News, Apr. 7, 2018
“I Ask AI to Write a Poem for My Lover”
Shannan Mann, rattle.com, February 19, 2023
“You Are Being Tracked”
Devon Balwit, rattle.com, Aug. 23, 2022

AI as Creator

Books in the Library

Aesthetic Animism by David Jhave Johnston A poetics appropriate to the digital era that connects digital poetry to traditional poetry's concerns with being.This book offers a decoder for some of the new forms of poetry enabled by digital technology. Examining many of the strange technological vectors converging on language, it proposes a poetics appropriate to the digital era while connecting digital poetry to traditional poetry's concerns with being (a.k.a. ontological implications). Digital poetry, in this context, is not simply a descendent of the book. Digital poems are not necessarily "poems" or written by "poets"; they are found in ads, conceptual art, interactive displays, performative projects, games, or apps. Poetic tools include algorithms, browsers, social media, and data. Code blossoms into poetic objects and poetic proto-organisms. Introducing the terms TAVs (Textual-Audio-Visuals) and TAVITS (Textual-Audio-Visual-Interactive), Aesthetic Animism theorizes a relation between scientific method and literary analysis; considers the temporal implications of animation software; and links software studies to creative writing. Above all it introduces many examples of digital poetry within a playful yet considered flexible taxonomy. In the future imagined here, digital poets program, sculpt, and nourish immense immersive interfaces of semi-autonomous word ecosystems. Poetry, enhanced by code and animated by sensors, reengages themes active at the origin of poetry- animism, agency, consciousness. Digital poetry will be perceived as living, because it is living.
Ai 2041 by Kai-Fu Lee; Chen Qiufan AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand-new forms of communication and entertainment. In liberating us from routine work, however, AI will also challenge the organizing principles of our economic and social order. Meanwhile, AI will bring new risks in the form of autonomous weapons and smart technology that inherits human bias. AI is at a tipping point, and people need to wake up--both to AI's radiant pathways and its existential perils for life as we know it. In this provocative, utterly original work, Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of AI Superpowers, teams up with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping short stories, they introduce readers to an array of eye-opening 2041 settings, such as: * In San Francisco, the "job reallocation" industry emerges as deep learning AI causes widespread job displacement * In Tokyo, a music fan is swept up in an immersive form of celebrity worship based on virtual reality and mixed reality * In Mumbai, a teenage girl rebels when AI's crunching of big data gets in the way of romance * In Seoul, virtual companions with perfected natural language processing (NLP) skills offer orphaned twins new ways to connect * In Munich, a rogue scientist draws on quantum computing, computer vision and other AI technologies in a revenge plot that imperils the world By gazing toward a not-so-distant horizon, AI 2041 offers urgent insights into our collective future--while reminding readers that, ultimately, humankind remains the author of its destiny.
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury The Illustrated Man, a seminal work in Ray Bradbury's career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage, is available from Simon & Schuster for the first time. Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. For this peerless American storyteller, the most bewitching force in the universe is human nature. In these eighteen startling tales unfolding across a canvas of tattooed skin, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Provocative and powerful, The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth--as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world.
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! A magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro--author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love? In its award citation in 2017, the Nobel committee described Ishiguro's books as "novels of great emotional force" and said he has "uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."