Is Europe lagging behind China in AI development? Either way, this German Chinese restaurant employs intelligent service robots. Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Zoonar/S. Ziese

AI development Taking the outside lane

Europe has fallen behind in artificial intelligence (AI) development, but this disadvantage may soon become an advantage.

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Whether it is composing music or painting pictures, artificial intelligence has the technical and creative capacity to make art. Photo (detail): © Adobe
Cultural expression and machine learning

The wolf we feed

Whether it is composing music or painting pictures, artificial intelligence has the technical and creative capacity to make art. Argentinian publisher Octavio Kulesz predicts this could lead to an explosion of creativity and increased market concentration at the same time.
Could an algorithm write music to rival Bach? The performance “Gödel Escher Bach” at the Barbican Performing Arts Centre in London. Photo (detail): © privat
Artificial Intelligence

The machine that unleashes our creativity

British mathematician Marcus du Sautoy is convinced that artificial intelligence (AI) can be as creative as humans and might even attain a state of consciousness in future: a discussion on the current creative limitations of AI, its ability to surprise us, and how AI changes the way our species is looking at its own creativity.
When AI creates a painting, is it truly art? And who ultimately owns the copyright? Photo (detail): © DeepArt
When AI creates a painting, is it truly art? And who ultimately owns the copyright?

Artificial intelligence and art When is art really art?

Artificial intelligence making art puts a new spin on age-old questions, such as if AI art can really be called art, and who gets credit as the artist – the machine, the programmer or the person whose data was fed into the algorithm.

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The largest artificial neuronal networks operating in computers today have around one billion cross-indexations, a thousand times that of their predecessors just a few years ago. But this is practically insignificant compared to the human brain. It is roughly equivalent to just one cubic millimetre of brain tissue.

Peter Glaser in his essay “Master or Minion?”

AI and Psychology “The fact that we gain a little does not justify the fact that we lose a lot”

Artificial intelligence is like a mother who arranges everything for us, – says psychologist Pavla Koucká. If we are not careful, we will end up like spoiled children – dependent and unable to develop real relationships. How can we make meaningful use of artificial intelligence while continuing to develop as humans?

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Intimacy and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Algorithmic Culture

AI is profoundly shaping culture. Rather than fearing machines that surpass human intelligence, we might consider how human beings are being asked to act more like machines. How might a reconnection to the body, to landscape, and to experiences of diaspora suggest new possibilities?

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Logo des Projekts Generation A=Algorithmus Illustration: © Tobias Schrank

Artificial Intelligence Generation A=Algorithm

With the use of artificial intelligence, society will change from the ground up. The Project “Generation A=Algorithm” deals with exactly these changes and their effects on a Generation A that is still in its infancy.

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