AI: Your New Creative Muse? with Douglas Eck

Professor Hannah Fry is joined by Google DeepMind's senior research director Douglas Eck to explore AI's capacity for true creativity. They delve into the complexities of defining creativity, the challenges of AI generated content and attribution, and whether AI can help us to connect with each other in new and meaningful ways.

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Timecodes
01:22 Defining creativity
02:12 Small c and big C creativity
02:40 Can AI be truly original?
04:12 The social side of art
05:42 How do we measure AI creativity?
07:57 Challenges of continuity
09:25 How does AI learn?
10:37 What’s next for generative AI?
10:42 Multimodality (video, image, music)
12:12 AI and scientific discovery
13:22 Hypotheticals
14:12 The role of AI in art creation
15:12 Conclusion

Thanks to everyone who made this possible, including but not limited to:

Presenter: Professor Hannah Fry
Series Producer: Dan Hardoon
Editor: Rami Tzabar, TellTale Studios
Commissioner & Producer: Emma Yousif
Music composition: Eleni Shaw

Camera Director and Video Editor: Tommy Bruce
Audio Engineer: Darren Carikas
Video Studio Production: Nicholas Duke
Video Editor: Bilal Merhi
Video Production Design: James Barton
Visual Identity and Design: Eleanor Tomlinson
Commissioned by Google DeepMind