The Artist In The Machine: The World Of AI-Powered Creativity With Arthur I. Miller
Can artificial intelligence augment our human creativity? Will AI ever be able to create art on its own and would we even be able to appreciate it? In this interview, Arthur I. Miller talks about the nature of creativity and The Artist in the Machine. In the intro, I mention my list of AI writing sites, and DALL-E by Open AI, as well as episode 518 on Writing in the Age of AI. Arthur I. Miller, Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London, is the author of nine books spanning science, philosophy and creativity. Among them is Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty that Causes Havoc, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art. His latest book is The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity, which we're talking about today. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and full transcript below. Show Notes * What is creativity? * Examples of art created with AI across visual art, music, and writing * Is AI a tool or a collaborator? * Copyright issues with work created with AI * What does the future of AI hold? You can find Arthur I Miller at ArtistInTheMachine.net and ArthurIMiller.com and on Twitter @ArthurIMiller Transcript of Interview with Arthur I Miller Joanna: Welcome to the show, Arthur. Arthur: Thank you for inviting me, Joanna. It's a pleasure to be here. Joanna: I'm so excited to talk to you since I read your book. I've given it to several people as well. It's great. Tell us a bit more about your background and why you became interested in creativity and AI. Arthur: I became interested in creativity when I was a boy growing up in the Bronx. It's a Bronx story. I was always a voracious reader and I made frequent visits to the local public library which was a magisterial building jam-packed with books and records, too. One day I was reading at a table that happened to be next to the place where records were stacked. And on the edge of a row of records was one that particularly intrigued me because it had a picture of a man done in a pencil sketch, the man is deeply in thought. I was always interested in sketching and then art in general. So I decided to borrow it, take it home, and practice copying the sketch on the cover. And I figured, well, since I have the record in my house I might as well listen to it even though I never heard of the composer. I played it and it just blew my mind, with Tchaikovsky's “Fifth Symphony.” I have never heard anything like that before. I began working back to Tchaikovsky and then gradually working back in time to other composers, too. The question that was immediately on my mind was how did these people think up that magnificent music?...