Ask not what AI can do for art... but what art can do for AI

Ask not what AI can do for art... but what art can do for AI

What can art do for artificial intelligence? This essay circles around this question from a viewpoint grounded in the embodied knowledge base of contemporary art. The author employs the term “feelthink” to refer to the shifting webs of perception, emotion, thought, and action probed by artists enga...

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Main Author: Meredith Tromble
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya 2020-09-01
Series:Artnodes
Subjects:
Art, artificial intelligence, A.I., embodiment, feelthink, metaphor
Online Access:https://raco.cat/index.php/Artnodes/article/view/373970
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spelling doaj-27cd492439254190a278373a3b6afa172021-06-11T11:35:23ZcatUniversitat Oberta de CatalunyaArtnodes1695-59512020-09-012610.7238/a.v0i26.3368Ask not what AI can do for art... but what art can do for AIMeredith Tromble0San Francisco Art Institute What can art do for artificial intelligence? This essay circles around this question from a viewpoint grounded in the embodied knowledge base of contemporary art. The author employs the term “feelthink” to refer to the shifting webs of perception, emotion, thought, and action probed by artists engaging AI. Tracing several metaphors used by artists to consider AI, the author identifies points where the metaphors delaminate, pulling away from the phenomena to which they refer. The author advocates for these partial and imagistic understandings of AI as probes which, despite or because of their flaws, contribute important ideas for the development and cultural positioning of AI entities. The author further questions the limited scope of art ideas addressed in AI research and proposes a thought experiment in which art joins industry as a source of questions for developing artificial intelligences. In conclusion, the essay’s structuring metaphor is described as an example of “feelthink” at work. https://raco.cat/index.php/Artnodes/article/view/373970Art, artificial intelligence, A.I., embodiment, feelthink, metaphor
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title Ask not what AI can do for art... but what art can do for AI
title_short Ask not what AI can do for art... but what art can do for AI
title_full Ask not what AI can do for art... but what art can do for AI
title_fullStr Ask not what AI can do for art... but what art can do for AI
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title_sort ask not what ai can do for art... but what art can do for ai
publisher Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
series Artnodes
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publishDate 2020-09-01
description What can art do for artificial intelligence? This essay circles around this question from a viewpoint grounded in the embodied knowledge base of contemporary art. The author employs the term “feelthink” to refer to the shifting webs of perception, emotion, thought, and action probed by artists engaging AI. Tracing several metaphors used by artists to consider AI, the author identifies points where the metaphors delaminate, pulling away from the phenomena to which they refer. The author advocates for these partial and imagistic understandings of AI as probes which, despite or because of their flaws, contribute important ideas for the development and cultural positioning of AI entities. The author further questions the limited scope of art ideas addressed in AI research and proposes a thought experiment in which art joins industry as a source of questions for developing artificial intelligences. In conclusion, the essay’s structuring metaphor is described as an example of “feelthink” at work.
topic Art, artificial intelligence, A.I., embodiment, feelthink, metaphor
url https://raco.cat/index.php/Artnodes/article/view/373970
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