AI: Your New Creative Muse? with Douglas Eck
Aug 14, 2024 Google DeepMind: The Podcast
Professor Hannah Fry is joined by Google DeepMind’s senior research director Douglas Eck to explore AI’s capacity for true creativity. They delve into the complexities of defining creativity, the challenges of AI generated content and attribution, and whether AI can help us to connect with each other in new and meaningful ways.
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Timecodes
01:22 Defining creativity
02:12 Small c and big C creativity
02:40 Can AI be truly original?
04:12 The social side of art
05:42 How do we measure AI creativity?
07:57 Challenges of continuity
09:25 How does AI learn?
10:37 What’s next for generative AI?
10:42 Multimodality (video, image, music)
12:12 AI and scientific discovery
13:22 Hypotheticals
14:12 The role of AI in art creation
15:12 Conclusion