AI's Impact on Careers in Humanities and Creative Fields
Articles
- An A.I.-Generated Picture Won an Art Prize. Artists Aren’t Happy.Kevin Roose, New York Times, Sep. 2, 2022
- AI, philosophy and religion: what machine learning can tell us about the Bhagavad GitaRohitash Chandra, The Conversation, May 11, 2022
- AI and the Future of Design: Is There Still a Future in Graphic Design?Adrian Boysel, Digital Marketer, Jan. 2, 2023
- Authors call for AI companies to stop using their work without consentLucy Knight, The Guardian, Jul. 20, 2023
- Hollywood writers fear losing work to AISusan Hornik, BBC.com, Jul. 27, 2023
- How might generative AI change creative jobs?Simon Torkington, World Economic Forum, May 9, 2023
- The looming threat of AI to Hollywood, and why it should matter to youAlissa Wilkinson, Vox.com, May 2, 2023
- What Students Are Saying About A.I.-Generated MusicThe Learning Network, The New York Times, May 11, 2023
- ‘It’s the opposite of art’: why illustrators are furious about AISarah Shaffi, The Guardian, Jan. 23, 2023
- What Poets Know That ChatGPT Doesn’tWalt Hunter, The Atlantic, Feb. 13, 2023
Videos
- How AI is transforming the creative industriesThe Economist
- AI vs. the Music Industry: With the Internet Full of Fake Drakes and Eminems, Who Gets Paid?Geoff Mayfield, Jem Aswad, Variety.com, May 3, 2023
Books in the Library
Aesthetic Animism by
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.
The Creativity Code by
The award-winning author of The Music of the Primes explores the future of creativity and how machine learning will disrupt, enrich, and transform our understanding of what it means to be human. Can a well-programmed machine do anything a human can--only better? Complex algorithms are choosing our music, picking our partners, and driving our investments. They can navigate more data than a doctor or lawyer and act with greater precision. For many years we've taken solace in the notion that they can't create. But now that algorithms can learn and adapt, does the future of creativity belong to machines, too? It is hard to imagine a better guide to the bewildering world of artificial intelligence than Marcus du Sautoy, a celebrated Oxford mathematician whose work on symmetry in the ninth dimension has taken him to the vertiginous edge of mathematical understanding. In The Creativity Code he considers what machine learning means for the future of creativity. The Pollockizer can produce drip paintings in the style of Jackson Pollock, Botnik spins off fanciful (if improbable) scenes inspired by J. K. Rowling, and the music-composing algorithm Emmy managed to fool a panel of Bach experts. But do these programs just mimic, or do they have what it takes to create? Du Sautoy argues that to answer this question, we need to understand how the algorithms that drive them work--and this brings him back to his own subject of mathematics, with its puzzles, constraints, and enticing possibilities. While most recent books on AI focus on the future of work, The Creativity Code moves us to the forefront of creative new technologies and offers a more positive and unexpected vision of our future cohabitation with machines. It challenges us to reconsider what it means to be human--and to crack the creativity code.
Kant and Artificial Intelligence by
How are artificial intelligence (AI) and the strong claims made by their philosophical representatives to be understood and evaluated from a Kantian perspective? Conversely, what can we learn from AI and its functions about Kantian philosophy's claims to validity? This volume focuses on various aspects, such as the self, the spirit, self-consciousness, ethics, law, and aesthetics to answer these questions.
