Unfortunately this week I was absent for our classes as on Monday I went and got all four of my wisdom teeth extracted. In the following days up till even now, I have been and am still in a lot of pain in my mouth as now the anaesthesia has worn off. I have also been on a lot of medication that has made me extremely sleepy all the time! Nevertheless, I have attempted to do the readings and watched a couple links from the set readings for this week.
In Andy Lomas’s ‘On Hybrid Creativity’, Lomas explores the “potentialities of the system we are working with, as well as the limits of its capabilities”, in reference to how we as creative individuals should be utilising AI systems in ways that expand the creative boundaries. What I gathered from this reading was that Lomas argues that we must not simply use AI generative systems to find a designated, simple, one way or another answer, but we should be “open to a process of exploration”. Rather than working to find an answer, we need to work with the AI to test the limits, and attempt to expand the horizon of potential output we may receive. Lomas also uses the term “emergence results” which refers to the results from AI generative systems that are not easily predictable or directly programmed. We can think of it as the results ’emerging’ from simpler interactions, leading to new and unexpected outcomes!
In the AI Film Festival Los Angeles 2024 Panel Discussion, one man explained how in most projects our goal is the final product and the final result is all that artists care about, but that AI allows one to understand the importance of the process or journey to the outcome. As it is a collaboration between human, and machine, there is a relationship that has never been possible before, and it is creating extraordinary outcomes. This leads me to something Paul Trillo says in the panel. Trillo explains that “there is no judgement with AI” so therefore speaking ideas and giving all your creativity and thoughts to AI allows possibility for anything. AI will not shut down an idea immediately like another person will. Instead, AI will listen and try to work with or improve the idea. Of course, this idea may not always end up how you want it, but it is the way that this trial and error would be too time consuming with only people. Trillo says that “having this internal experience is totally unique”.
Referencing:
Lomas, A 2018, ‘On Hybrid Creativity’, Arts, vol. 7, no. 3,
Panel Discussion | AI Film Festival Los Angeles 2024 | Runway 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWtKk-i0RPk accessed 12 August 2024