The role of myth in AI

Dr Ben Swift

ARTH2165: Theories of the Image

first, tell me about yourselves

style transfer

take the content of one image and the style of another, and blend them

genekogan.com/works/style-transfer

style transfer, in motion

AI == deep learning

(possibly)

what is this deep magic?

what are the folk theories about how this works?

what have you heard on the grapevine?

the actual image

mostly just matrices of numbers, multiplied together

@quasimondo

how do we talk about this?

“an AI learned to make fireworks” · “this AI paints like the old masters”

the questions

where’s the authorship?

where’s the agency?

are you more or less worried than before?

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