Artificial intelligence is here in our entertainment. What does that mean for the future of the arts?
... What surprised even more people than just Allen was that he had created his work––a rendering of three lushly robed figures staring through a gleaming portal into another world––with the artificial intelligence tool Midjourney. For Allen, the win was an unexpected triumph, but for others it was the fuse that sparked a heated debate over AI's potential uses––and misuses––in the arts. ...
"It can't produce anything that it hasn't already been trained on, so it's impossible for it to create legitimately new things," Curry says. ...
"Everybody talks about, 'the algorithm did this' or 'the algorithm did that.' From my experience, it doesn't feel like the algorithm is doing much of anything. You have to push it into whatever it is that you actually want it to do." ...
Like any other piece of technology, the way AI is used changes when it gets into the hands of artists—not the other way around. Loughridge compares it to Auto-Tune, a pitch correction processor that was once controversial but has become a music industry standard. ...
In order to bridge what they see as a gap in technological literacy when it comes to AI, Gradecki and Curry worked together to develop a creative computing minor at Northeastern. The aim is to provide students with a critical and creative understanding of how artificial intelligence can be used. ...
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