The creative industry is undergoing a shift as music, prose, artwork, essays and more can now be easily assembled by intelligence tools. Many artists are anxious that their work will eventually be replaced as corporations seek AI professionals.

AI can play instruments and compose music; voices of your favourite singer can be replicated with ease. This concerns young musician Kieran Barber who believes artificial intelligence is a profound threat to his future career. 

In the midst of the AI panic, I was able to attend a fascinating exhibition ‘AI Encounters’ at Queen Mary University of London. Having never attended a show that incorporates AI, I was apprehensive to see if all my worst fears would be confirmed.

We speak to German visual artist Timo Helgert about his impressive artistic career and new collaboration with global technology brand, HONOR. 

Discover how data and code can become art

Ai-Da will use a databank of words and speech pattern analysis to create a ‘reactive’ piece to Dante’s famous poem, the Divine Comedy

"As I spoke out against online abuse against women and girls and the bias within machine learning systems that ostensibly are there to protect against this, I could feel the support and approbation in that room"

We’ve all been warned about deepfakes, but how real, and how imminent is the threat?

Sometimes, the simplest things can be cause for laughter. Using a Markov chain with a corpus of characters, this was the goal of the MozFest 2021 session ‘Laughing with computers: using AI for comedic effect’, led by creative coder, Hay Kranen.

On the first day of Mozilla Festival 2021, virtual sessions held over Zoom meant that attendees from around the globe were able to see the different workshops and discussions taking place. Find out more about ‘Contextualising AI’ in this article!

With an all-female panel of accomplished women working in the field of technology, Mozilla Festival’s event ‘Gender Diversity in Tech and Trustworthy AI’ aimed to highlight the deep-set inequalities that govern the world of tech. 

During the Tate Exchange ‘Uni 2 Unicorns event, I took part in an interactive workshop to find out more about the potential for artificial intelligence to identify and mimic human emotion.