This week I was absent for classes but made sure I kept up with this week’s work and class discussions by listening to the recording on Wednesdays class. On Monday we had Assignment 3 presentations which I was disappointed I missed. I recorded my presentation, where I discussed my experiences using AI in my assignments over the semester. I discussed the positives and negatives of my experiences, which helped me find my key idea for the semester and Assignment 2. Over the semester I have found that my attitude towards AI has from the start been negative and I have never associated it with being an art form. My key idea was the thought of if I do not like AI and can not call it art, is this bias, and can it be changed by combining something I love with the AI so that I can perceive it from more of an artistic lens? I found a few really interesting articles over the weeks which I included in my presentation as I found they made me think about AI in our lives in a different way. One of them explained the bias that humans have against AI, and we disregard anything as soon as we know where it came from, even if we actually do like the art.

I also spoke about Assignment 4 which I will be completing with Ally. We have decided to make a new wave 80s style music video, which is us combining something we love and do appreciate with AI, combining AI footage with original footage. We have already generated an AI song using Audio which turned out exactly how we wanted it! We plan to shoot part of the music video soon, while also filming an interview segment with the “artist” using dialogue or a script that was also generated by AI. We prompted the 80s style language, to which we were very successful as it picked up 80s slang and lingo that will really enhance the effect of our interview. Our planning has been very successful so far, we are on the right track, and very excited to put together this project with the help of AI.

I managed to listen to the guest speaker on Wednesday from the recording on the lesson plan, and found it very interesting to here Professor McCosker talk about AI in his life, and how it has wiggled its way into industries. I also appreciated hearing the class talk about what they struggled with during completing past assignments. It was interesting to see that everybody had fairly similar issues with AI, where the AI could not generate exactly what the person wanted many times. I can definitely relate to that in my experience, but that was where I started using the generated media I had generated for different scenes, depending on where they fit the most. I found this helped with matching facial emotions of the AI people with how I wanted them to feel. This saved a lot of time as I was not having to regenerate every single shot.