Found in Translation
As I write, it is early 2024, and it feels like “AI” has very much gone overground. For a lot of people, this means playing with generative systems for producing images (and rudimentary videos) from…
As I write, it is early 2024, and it feels like “AI” has very much gone overground. For a lot of people, this means playing with generative systems for producing images (and rudimentary videos) from…
I was delighted to be invited to contribute to the famous Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. This year’s topic was “The Truth about AI”, presented by Mike Woolridge. I gave a crash course in text2image diffusion…
I was delighted to be asked to create some video for The Skewer. I’m responsible for the intro sequence and the Boris bit (about 7mins in). The whole programme is fantastic, let’s hope they commission…
A few years ago, my friend and sometimes collaborator, the author John Higgs was kicking around the idea that a future super-intelligent AI may not inevitably take over the world and destroy us (as suggested…
I have long held a fascination with #manufacturedauthenticity. Authenticity is what we seek out in art (and across our lives, more generally). Many of my previous works have investigated how machine generated interventions can appear…
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The vast majority of current artistic activity around AI systems is in the visual domain. However, tools are arriving daily which operate in different domains. One area I find particularly fascinating is speech and music…