Category: Arts
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‘People want the human story’ – Björn Ulvaeus on new AI ‘artist’
Interesting piece on the Today programme this morning about a new ‘artist’… who is totally AI generated: Ben Gaya It’s… not what I’d call a ‘hit’ – though they do. But it raises interesting questions about the purpose of art, of music… and of ‘soul’. Because, whatever the new sunny uplands of AI, soul is…
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What are we waiting for?
The following is a post I wrote for the Advent reflection group I’ve been running for the past few years on WhatsApp. One post a day; no replies allowed. All signal, no noise. A few weeks ago H & I went to see Waiting for Godot, with Lucian Msamati and Ben Whishaw in the lead…
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Music Creation in the Age of AI
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…
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Not OK, Computer?
“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…
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Goldsmiths | The importance of design in a GenAI world
Had an amazing time at Goldsmiths presenting on the book for the Expanded Practice Design MA course! So good to throw the material in the book up against a new context, and see what interesting resonances come out. Most importantly, I wanted to highlight how all technologies emerge into a theological and socio-cultural context… and…
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War Machine + the (very) narrow path to good AI
Last week I had the pleasure of chatting to Matt Baker, of the War Machine podcast, about the book. It was a pretty rich conversation – and Matt edits up a very decent intro too! Hope you enjoy listening. I also went up to Oxford on Thursday to go to a lecture being given by…