Dream Machine – AI and Creativity
Dream Machine - AI and Creativity
Podcast Description
Dream Machine is your front-row seat to hear in real time, how artificial intelligence is reshaping the creative world. We are here to reveal the exciting, sometimes unsettling ways AI intersects with art, culture and innovation. Through lively, thought provoking and often humorous conversations with artists, engineers, creative trailblazers, we explore how AI is challenging what it means to be creative. While AI can assist, collaborate, amplify and even provoke us, it’s our unique perspective, imagination and wit that keep the human creative flame alive.
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The podcast covers a wide range of topics such as the philosophical dimensions of creativity, AI's role in artistic expression, and ethical implications surrounding AI technologies. Example episodes include discussions on whether machines can truly imagine with Professor Dustin Stokes and examining AI as a collaborator in creative fields in conversation with ChatGPT.
Dream Machine is your front-row seat to hear in real time, how artificial intelligence is reshaping the creative world. We are here to reveal the exciting, sometimes unsettling ways AI intersects with art, culture and innovation. Through lively, thought provoking and often humorous conversations with artists, engineers, creative trailblazers, we explore how AI is challenging what it means to be creative. While AI can assist, collaborate, amplify and even provoke us, it’s our unique perspective, imagination and wit that keep the human creative flame alive.
Kevin Kelly—founding editor of Wired Magazine, futurist, and author of The Inevitable and Excellent Advice for Living—joins us to explore the strange and thrilling frontier where AI meets human creativity.
In this episode, we explore:
How AI is reshaping what it means to create
Why working with machines might become the new creative norm
Whether creativity is still a uniquely human trait
The value of long-term thinking in a fast-changing world
Why optimism is not naïve, but essential
We also touch on dog-like AI companions, collaborative art, techno-ethics, and what it means to be a good ancestor in an age of accelerating intelligence.
This is a wide-ranging conversation with one of the most original thinkers on technology and the future.
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