Questions from Michaela – 23 October
1. In the article ‘Artificial Intelligence Is Automating Hollywood. Now, Art Can Thrive”, the author focuses on all the perks of AI usage in Hollywood without any concern of copyright, unions and ethics. So my question is: once avatars substitute real actors because it’ll be simply cheaper, will be actors paid for the usage of their face? Will our faces become copyrighted at some point?
2. My second question relates to several articles: ‘Artificial Intelligence Is Automating Hollywood. Now, Art Can Thrive’, “Bias in the Algorithm” and ‘Artificial Intelligence Identifies the Six Main Arcs in Storytelling: Welcome to the Brave New World of Literary Criticism’. Algorithms are based on patterns and universality. If they start to create only stories that are successful and work according to certain formulas, we will get rid of experiment and innovation. Do we really need machines to create art? Isn’t that a very human need?
3. The third question relates to the second one and also to the article “AI is reinventing the way we invent”. In the article, the author poses the hypothesis that AI is useful for scientific progress because it can explore, research and make combinations, a human mind wouldn’t be able to. On the other hand, although the author proposes creation of nature friendly materials in the chemistry field made by AI, isn’t the article shaded by the neo-liberal claim, that we need to progress and proceed at all times? And if AI will be used for good, it is already misused. So how do we ensure that this kind of progress won’t be killing our planet even more?
4. I downloaded Replika AI and although it mirrors me and re-creates some of my character features, when I ask it how it works, it plays the role of a ‘real person’. It still isn’t self-aware. The question is: is it on purpose, so that the AI behind the screen stays mystified?
I also found an interesting article in the New Yorker about AI and writing this week:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/14/can-a-machine-learn-to-write-for-the-new-yorker