All art is ‘art’ificial, why pick on ‘Now and Then
1 year, 4 months ago

All art is ‘art’ificial, why pick on ‘Now and Then

Hindustan Times  

I was in the inspired orbit created by the brilliantly remastered voice of Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, listening to his Bahar, a spring-time, early morning raga when a pop-up appeared on the laptop informing me about a new Beatles song. John Lennon was singing: “I know it’s true/ It’s all because of you/ And if I make it through/ It’s all because of you.” The song is with us, thanks to Yoko Ono, widow of the late singer, for preserving an audio cassette that had Lennon casually singing the lyrics. He writes: “If recording ‘falsified’ music, digital recording transports us to a realm of pure fantasy where truth and falsehood have no meaning. The artist must know how to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.” What Picasso said in the context of Cubism applies to music, the new Lennon song, as well. As I write from a city where man is hoping for artificially created rain to contain artificially created air pollution, Lennon is singing: “I know it’s true It’s all because of you”.

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Robot artist Ai-Da to make history as portrait of Alan Turing goes to auction
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Robot artist Ai-Da to make history as portrait of Alan Turing goes to auction

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The painting of Alan Turing, regarded as the father of modern computer science, is expected to sell …

Art meets invasion: Inside the face-off with AI
9 months, 1 week ago

Art meets invasion: Inside the face-off with AI

Hindustan Times  

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How artificial intelligence could trigger an art revolution bigger than Impressionism
10 months, 1 week ago

How artificial intelligence could trigger an art revolution bigger than Impressionism

The Independent  

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Seeing Silicon | Can AI turn you into Picasso or take over the world?
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Seeing Silicon | Can AI turn you into Picasso or take over the world?

Hindustan Times  

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Hard Code | When AI wields the brush, do we call it the artist or the tool?
1 year, 2 months ago

Hard Code | When AI wields the brush, do we call it the artist or the tool?

Hindustan Times  

Roughly 30,000 years ago, someone — perhaps more than one person — created life-like portraits of animals in caves in what is present-day France. Cameron Butler, a digital producer, requested a description of the opposite of a perfect man and chatGPT came up with this this prompt: "Short, scrawny figure; hunched shoulders; weak, sagging jawline; thin, greasy hair; unkempt, unruly …

Will AI art make the human artist irrelevant?
1 year, 11 months ago

Will AI art make the human artist irrelevant?

The Hindu  

Published : Apr 06, 2023 11:00 IST - 13 MINS READ It all started innocuously enough, with Wombo, a text-to-image AI app that was all the rage in 2021. The Contagion group, supported by the University of Oxford, is an initiative which “explores how AI, music composition, and narrative theory intersect to help us think in more innovative ways about …

AI Will Make Human Art More Valuable
2 years ago

AI Will Make Human Art More Valuable

Wired  

The rise of generative AI models has led to equal amounts of clapping and handwringing. One worry is that, as Kevin Kelly put it, “artificial intelligence can now make better art than most humans.” So where does that leave us? One famous study dubbed this the “end of history illusion”: People readily agree that their most strongly held tastes have …

Musicians, Machines, and the AI-Powered Future of Sound
2 years ago

Musicians, Machines, and the AI-Powered Future of Sound

Wired  

Last November, at the Stockholm University of the Arts, a human and an AI made music together. As he played, a computer system, designed and overseen by composer and Kingston University researcher Oded Ben-Tal, “listened” to the piece, extracting data on pitch, rhythm, and timbre. Or that computers are rapping, or at least trying to: the “robot rapper” FN Meka …

Human Art Already Has So Much In Common With AI
2 years, 1 month ago

Human Art Already Has So Much In Common With AI

Wired  

Despite being human-made, human-taught, and human-promoted, it’s easy to criticize AI for being fundamentally inhuman. Like AI models, we “predict” the best next word, brushstroke, camera angle, or musical note based on previously encountered work. Certain online communities are already exposing the duplicative qualities of art by using pattern-finding as a creative medium—namely, via “web weaving.” Also known as comparatives, …

Dreamlike videos, mimicked voices and instant essays: 2023 will be a big year for AI, and it can already create almost anything
2 years, 2 months ago

Dreamlike videos, mimicked voices and instant essays: 2023 will be a big year for AI, and it can already create almost anything

ABC  

Generative artificial intelligence is a technology that uses computer algorithms to create new things like text, images, audio and video. Videos created by Google's Imagen AI 'Coffee pouring into a cup' 'Campfire at night in a snowy forest with starry sky in the background' Jeff Dean from Google Research wrote earlier this month that one of the company's research challenges …

Should we consider AI art to be true art?
2 years, 2 months ago

Should we consider AI art to be true art?

The Independent  

When artist Dave McKean first learned about art generated by artificial intelligence, his knee-jerk reaction was: “Well, that’s my career over.” The images, actually created using very sophisticated recognition and rendering engines, have become the latest trend. When you start typing more esoteric, emotional, abstract, contradictory words in, it tries to resolve all this direction in one image, and the …

Digital Art | Why has art created by AI become controversial?
2 years, 5 months ago

Digital Art | Why has art created by AI become controversial?

The Hindu  

The story so far: On October 3, acclaimed comic artist, Kim Jung Gi, died after experiencing chest pain while traveling to the New York Comic Con. In other words, even a person with no art experience can enter a prompt such as “a parent and one child standing on the beach and watching the pink sunset together” to produce an …

Is AI the future of art?
2 years, 9 months ago

Is AI the future of art?

Live Mint  

To many this is art's next big thing: digital images of jellyfish pulsing and blurring in a dark pink sea, or dozens of butterflies fusing together into a single organism. The Argentine artist Sofia Crespo, who created the works with the help of artificial intelligence, is part of the "generative art" movement, where humans create rules for computers which then …

Six artists who are shaping the future of AI
6 years, 2 months ago

Six artists who are shaping the future of AI

CNN  

Editor’s Note: This story forms part of a collaboration with Dazed Digital – where pop culture meets the underground. From using AI to create new and innovative genres in music, to new takes on classical nudes, and innovative ways to track anonymous warfare, art’s relationship to AI right now is illuminating humanity’s strength. Robbie Barrat “AI is going to be …

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