Creative muse, blunt instrument, or societal threat?
Theater director and MacArthur Fellow Annie Dorsen talks with NYU and Google data scientist, linguist, and cognitive psychologist Tal Linzen about the challenges and insights that come from working with generative AI. They explore how the artistic process helps us wrestle with the drastic changes that AI is quickly bringing about, diving into the difference between current AI technologies and how humans learn so quickly with relatively little data. Dorsen’s previous works in algorithmic theater have included Infinite Sun (2019), a sound installation that plays with the spiritual power of chants and feedback loops, and A Piece of Work (2013), a play that used algorithms and bots to reimagine Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Join us as we get a sneak peek into Dorsen’s new work, Prometheus Firebringer, which uses GPT-3 to speculate on the lost works of Aeschylus’ Prometheus trilogy, and hear what artists and scientists are really doing when they integrate AI into their processes.