The Digital Aesthete: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI
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Publisher Description
Today's software can only imitate art, but what about tomorrow?
Will true artificial intelligences be able to appreciate or even create art? Explore dystopian societies, where AI generates most of the content and human artists must eke out an existence, and utopias, where artificial minds help unlock and enhance human creativity.
Delve into the minds of robot painters, AI poets, drone forgers, and electronic theater curators. These and other possible futures are imagined by award-winning and bestselling human authors from the USA, UK, China, Ukraine, Chile, Japan, Madagascar, Brazil, Czech Republic, and Sri Lanka.
"In this impressive collection, a star-studded lineup of 17 authors assembled by Shvartsman (Kakistocracy) raise angst-ridden questions about human-AI collaboration. ... This smart, kaleidoscopic view into the digital future will have readers longing to log off." - Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this impressive collection, a star-studded lineup of 17 authors assembled by Shvartsman (Kakistocracy) raise angst-ridden questions about human-AI collaboration. In "Silicon Hearts," by Adrian Tchaikovsky, a nonsense-spewing writerbot is awarded top literary prizes from judges who are also bots (they're into lines like "jade plantish break fine fall the"), signaling the end of human-made literature and the beginning of a new art form: "machines writing for machines writing for machines." In Ken Liu's "Good Stories," which incorporates ChatGPT-generated text, machines have taken over both art and literary production, and "ninety-nine percent of the people can't tell the difference, or don't mind." Just the opposite is true in Ray Nayler's "Hermetic Kingdom," where "machine-generated cliches" can no longer satisfy the players of a sadistic video game, so its makers port in human indentured servants to take the place of NPCs. The lighthearted "Stage Shows and Schnauzers" by Tina Conolly hilariously employs AI to solve the attempted murder of an artist, while in the far darker "Prompt" by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, trans. from the Russian by Julia Meitov Hersey, a young performer contends with a computer-generated producer. This smart, kaleidoscopic view into the digital future will have readers longing to log off.
