Articles featuring Arthur I. Miller’s observations on creativity and AI
Too often playwrights and directors have virtually no experience of how scientists talk or behave towards each other A few days after Tom Stoppard’s death last month, Michael Baum, a distinguished surgeon, wrote a letter to the Times. He explained how Stoppard’s discussion of chaos theory in Arcadia had inspired him to discover a new … Read more
In 1931, the psychoanalyst Carl Jung took on an unusual patient, the brilliant young physicist, Wolfgang Pauli. Arthur I. Miller tells the story of their friendship, how they impacted each other’s work, and reflects on creativity. […]
Most people agree that AIs can create art. But can they truly be artists? This question cuts right to the heart of AI because it raises the issue of whether AIs can possess attributes of living beings, even though they are alien life forms. If so their intelligence will no longer be ‘artificial’ but as … Read more
On March 11, 2021, the auction house Christie’s sold a work by an American graphic designer, Michael Winkelmann, a.k.a. Beeple, for a colossal $69 million, making it the third most expensive work ever sold by a living artist. The work, Everydays: The First 5000 Days, is a nonfungible token, or NFT. It’s a computer file that … Read more
Today computers are creating an extraordinary new world of images, sounds and stories such as we have never experienced before […]
George Zarkadakis (GZ): Your book centers around AI. Can you give me a brief overview of the angle of your book?
Arthur Miller (AM): My goal in this book is to explore machine creativity with focus on AI-created art, literature and music. I ask whether machines can have characteristics of human creativity and so be creative like us, such as competitiveness, unpredictability, and emotions and then evolve a creativity of their own. Artist in the Machine looks at the upside of AI, how it can inspire us, increase our own creativity, and so add to the quality of our lives. […]
Arthur I. Miller reports on progress towards the Age of Superintelligence.
When I began researching my book The Artist in the Machine I knew a fair amount about AI-created art and music, but not so much about AI-created literature. From what I did know, I wondered whether I would have enough material to fill a chapter. It turned out that I had more than enough…
Early in the morning on May 18, 2015, Alexander Mordvintsev made an amazing discovery. He had been having trouble sleeping. Just after midnight, he awoke with a start. He was sure he’d heard a noise in the Zurich apartment where he lived with his wife and child. Afraid that he hadn’t locked the door to … Read more