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Ted Chiang: AI, Artifice, and Art
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2024-04-02 19:00:00
2024-04-02 20:30:00
Ted Chiang: AI, Artifice, and Art
Does artificial intelligence deserve to be called intelligence? What are the uses of synthetic text and imagery, and what would it take for those to be artistic mediums?
Join award-winning science fiction author, Ted Chiang as he discusses these complex topics.
He is the author of the acclaimed collection Exhalation. The movie Arrival was based on his short story, “Story of Your Life,” and he was named one of Time Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential People in AI.
This event is sponsored by the Dolliver NEH Project “Humanities and Artificial Intelligence,” the Catharine Gould Chism Fund for the Humanities, and the Department of Philosophy.
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The Philosophy Department
philosophy@pugetsound.edu
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America/Los_Angeles
public
Apr 02, 2024
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Does artificial intelligence deserve to be called intelligence? What are the uses of synthetic text and imagery, and what would it take for those to be artistic mediums?
Join award-winning science fiction author, Ted Chiang as he discusses these complex topics.
He is the author of the acclaimed collection Exhalation. The movie Arrival was based on his short story, “Story of Your Life,” and he was named one of Time Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential People in AI.
This event is sponsored by the Dolliver NEH Project “Humanities and Artificial Intelligence,” the Catharine Gould Chism Fund for the Humanities, and the Department of Philosophy.
Event Location
Tahoma room
Contact Information
The Philosophy Department
philosophy@pugetsound.edu