Kester Brewin

Author: KB

  • Music Creation in the Age of AI

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    Delighted to be chairing a panel on Music Creation in the Age of AI on Monday 28th November at Somerset House. Grab a ticket here. Hosted by the excellent On Da Beat records, I’ll be joined by Annemarie Gaillard (Head of Creative Partnerships at DAACI Drums), Nathan Duvall, (Founder of Sync-it.io) and Toby Akinyemi, (CEO…

  • Not OK, Computer?

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    “The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.” – AI Training Statement / https://www.aitrainingstatement.org/ Over 11,000 artists, writers, actors, musicians and others in the creative industries have signed the above statement, expressing their opposition…

  • Poetry Reading

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    This Thursday, 24th Nov, I’m going to be giving a poetry reading in London. This is a rare thing. I have written quite a bit of poetry, and had some pieces published, but not often given a public airing! So… if you’d like to come and see if I should make it even more rare…

  • Talk in Reading – Monday 15th October

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    I’ll be in Reading tomorrow evening (Monday 14th) speaking about the book and helping lead a discussion about the issues around AI and our relationship to machines, and one another. Info here about the event! And you can hear my segment on BBC Radio Berkshire this morning here: I’ll have some copies of the book…

  • Honey, you look thirsty

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    Interesting piece in The Conversation this week about relationships with AI chat-bots… and the market models that they are using that invariably tap into human desires. The idea of an AI partner was well explored in the film HER. But what’s missing from that is any dimension of value-extraction. This is not how things are…

  • Process This – AI Series with me, Tripp Fuller… and leading global thinkers on AI

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    As you may have picked up, top US podcaster Tripp Fuller and I have been co-hosting a series of expert conversations with leading thinkers on AI, inspired by my book, God-Like: a 500-Year History of AI. The list of interviewees is PHENOMENAL! From Lord Tim Clement-Jones – lead on AI regulation in the House of…