Serendipity Arts Festival 2024 | Warming up to AI in Panjim
The HinduWalking into the AI Minilab at the just-concluded Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa, I was armed with prompts I was dying to ask ChatGPT. AI gives everyone the tools to do it, but that doesn’t mean all can do it.” It brings to mind Refik Anadol, who is planning to open the world’s first AI arts museum, Dataland, in Los Angeles next year. The new media artist, whose interactive digital canvases showcase creations made from colossal datasets — from weather conditions to real-time data from the Amazon rainforest — insists that it is important for artists to build their own AI tools, so that they are co-creating with the machine. In the arts, news such as Marvel and Disney deciding to use an AI-generated animated intro for the show Secret Invasion earlier this year, is one of the many instances triggering fear among creatives.