Artificial intelligence is set to transform the world altering how we work, access content and create. Many visions of AI show it as robotic, machinelike and impersonal but is this really the case? In this first AI revolution it’s creativity and artistic disciplines that are most touched. But can a computer really be creative and what does creativity mean? Trained on our data - our images, writings, stories - they have only ever had an echo of the true experience of feeling sad or the wind in their hair.
We explore this topic, demonstrate how DALL·E works, get creeped out by Bing uncover what animals say, all using AI!
51: 🪄🃏The Devil’s Picture Books and Wild West Magic
50: ♠️♥️ Magic and Playing Card History with Magician Lee Asher ♣️♦️
49: 👁️The Curiosity of Sight. How eyes work and how we discovered that.
Bonus: 🎙️ Intelligent Speech 2023 and Takarajima
48: 🪙 Tales of treasure. Cocos Island, the Centurion and a Hermit
Bonus: 👵 Re-release: Margaret Ann Neve (fixed!)
Bonus: 🥔 The Potato Boom!
47: 👾 Interview with Paul Mayze: Cards, the Universe and Everything
46: 🥔 Potato, Potato, Potato, foundation of the modern world
44: ⚛️ Elementary my dear Anton - atoms and elements
43: 🔮 The History of Magic
42: 🧒22 Orphans to Save the World - Intelligent Speech 2022
41: 🦜 William Dampier, explorer, pirate, privateer, navigator, and naturalist
40: ⌛ What is time?
Bonus: 🍫 Guilty Chocolate, Anton’s prize winning short story
39: 🎈The ‘True History’ of Flight
😍 Announcement: We’re at Intelligent Speech 2022!
38: 🪃 The Paradoxical Platypus
37: 🏰 Anton Investigates: Norman Castles
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