Artistic Intelligence

Through the Examination of Different AI Systems in How They Can Relate to Specific Fields of Studies, I Was Able to Better Understand the Value in Utilizing Them in My Own Work in the Science and Art World      As I first began looking at articles about artificial intelligence, I was surprised by how little I knew. I understood the general concept of what an AI is, and that over recent years, scientists have developed systems that can accomplish very complex tasks. However, I was not aware of the extent of these developments. Our first personal research on AI was to find an AI system that could connect to one of the animals we learned about, who had been trained to understand human commands for more complex matters, like Akeakamai the dolphin who could comprehend, respond to, and communicate with her trainers who used sign language, or Clever Hans, who was able to use facial and body cues to determine answers to the math questions they were being asked. Learning about th...

The Real Problems of Deepfakes             Deepfakes—defined by machine-learning experts Yisroel Mirsky and Wenke Lee as “content generated by an artificial intelligence, that is authentic in the eyes of a human being,” particularly “the generation and manipulation of human imagery”—have become increasingly popular in recent years. They rely on the rapidly developing technology of “deep learning.” Deep learning is, essentially, the process of a computer teaching itself new information through trial and error. In the case of deepfakes, the computer is teaching itself how human faces look and how they can be manipulated. Deepfakes have “lower[ed] the technological barriers required to create high-quality manipulations” (Lutz & Bassett). Their ease of access lends well to any individual or group seeking to create a time- and cost-efficient video for what is often a malicious purpose. Because of these malicious uses, it would be s...