TOGETHER IN ELECTRIC DREAMS – Blog 6
Synopsis – Stella
Scene – Suki
Reflection
This week, we continued to explore script writing and delved into the use of AI to assist with creative writing. In class, we engaged in writing exercises once again, and after multiple attempts at using AI for writing assistance, I still believe that AI helps create ideas, but its output tends to be too random and cannot compare to that of professional writers. This week’s reading also points out this issue. Through the practices of thirteen professional writers, it became evident that artificial intelligence can streamline certain aspects of the creative process, alleviating writers from tedium, but it cannot replace the entire creative process. The authors suggest that the future direction of artificial intelligence should be to assist people in solving the most time-consuming and tedious aspects of writing, a viewpoint with which I strongly agree.
As for our sketches, we encountered some challenges in the creative process. We were not familiar with the formats and distinctions between scripts and screenplays, so we sought assistance from ChatGPT, which provided us with helpful references. A script serves as the initial outline, encompassing dialogue and action but omitting the basic information required for production. On the other hand, a screenplay is the final outline, offering more detailed and comprehensive coverage than a script. Therefore, our production last week was a relatively basic script, this week, we learned how to create a more detailed screenplay.
The media work that caught my interest is Memo Akten’s “Learning to See” series. What’s fascinating about this series is that we don’t see the true essence of things; rather, we see our essence. The author uses machine algorithms to reflect on how we perceive the world. The images we see are not real; they are reconstructions based on our imagination and expectations. Similarly, artificial neural networks observe the world and attempt to understand what they see. However, they can only perceive through the filters they already know. They have only seen patterns like oceans, clouds, and flowers, so anything they generate is associated with these three things.