Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Elise Hu. It's TED Talks Daily. Today's talk is from an AI collaborator. But what does that mean? Kay Alato McDowell is creating a new kind of art, but co-creating it with AI. In their TED 2023 talk, Kay shares how they're using AI to preserve and enhance the best parts of being human.
Chapter 2: What does co-creating art with AI mean?
After a short break. I think it's safe to say there's never been a moment like this one in all of history. Of course, it's always safe to say that because every moment is unique and can never be reproduced. But when it comes to AI, the changes we've seen in a single generation and lately in a single day are truly historically novel. We are the first human beings to ever experience this.
I want to talk about how we experience it. AI is changing how we work and create. It's helping us solve complex problems in ecology, urban planning and medicine. From diagnosing disease to detecting forest fires, AI is giving us a new view of our planet and ourselves. This comes with challenges.
Chapter 3: How is AI changing our creative processes?
There are ongoing debates and open questions about ethics, power and the relationships between humans and machines. Are we at risk of losing what makes us most human? How can we preserve and even enhance the best in ourselves with AI? I think the answer to these questions lies in three principles. Creation, collaboration and care. Creation, collaboration and care.
We need to nurture creative relationships with AI. I've written with AI on several projects, and as an author, I've seen firsthand how AI co-writing can open the mind with remarkable results. To test these ideas, I wrote a novel with GPT-3. The AI suggested synchronistic plot twists, penetrating character arcs and critical perspectives I wouldn't have thought of on my own.
Together, we created something more compelling and imaginative than either of us would have alone. So let's co-create with AI.
Chapter 4: What challenges do we face with AI in creativity?
I love collaborations, because collaborations are more than the sum of their parts. For almost 10 years, I've been bringing artists and philosophers in to work with researchers at Google AI through the Artists and Machine Intelligence program.
By collaborating with machines, we've encouraged a new form of art that combines and transforms photography, poetry, cinema and music with machine learning models. But we've also brought the critical and creative imaginations of artists into the process of developing AI.
If we want a world that preserves and enhances the best parts of being human, we need a wide range of voices and disciplines present in the process of making AI. So let's collaborate on making AI. AI needs a goal. It needs a North Star. I believe the highest purpose for AI is to be healing.
That's why I created the opera Song of the Ambassadors, working with neuroscientists to study the effects of music and human AI feedback loops. By integrating AI-generated brainwave imagery into the performance, we were able to propose new musical and therapeutic approaches.
Song of the Ambassadors is offered as a prototype for a new kind of art that turns our highest technology towards collective healing. So let's care for each other with AI. These principles are simple, they might seem obvious, but the world is changing fast, and AI is complex. So the point needs to be made clearly. AI should preserve and enhance the best parts of being human.
But first, we must imagine new possibilities and new narratives for our future together. The next time you're thinking about or even thinking with AI, look for opportunities to create, collaborate and care. Thank you. Genomics pioneer Robert Green says many parents want their healthy newborn's DNA screened for diseases that may or may not show up later in life.
There is an argument that knowledge is power, and many families would like to know everything, whether it's treatable or not. The debate over revealing the secrets in babies' DNA. That's next time on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR. Subscribe or listen to the TED Radio Hour wherever you get your podcasts.
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