This talk will deal with the aesthetic and ethical implications of machinic creativity from the perspective of the humanities. While creativity and artistic origination have historically been tied to art's social value, Al art has recently begun to sell for high prices, and the promise of automating artistic production heralds new sectors of economic profit. Yet Al creativity also highlights the changing status of human innovation. This talk explores how research in the field of computational creativity will benefit from more robust appreciation of the nonhuman qualities of Al's creativity. Al's ever-expanding capabilities raise urgent questions of how to relate to a technology that, in many senses, invents itself.
Assistant Professor of English, University of Toronto
Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society
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The Humanity+Technology lecture series offers an interdisciplinary conversation about the world we make and what it means. We bring leading humanities scholars to LTU’s campus, where they help us interpret, imagine, or understand the past, present, and future of our technologies.
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