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What does it look like inside the mind of a machine? Inspired by the architectural vision of a futuristic Los Angeles in “Blade Runner,” media artist Refik Anadol melds art with artificial intelligence in his studio’s collaborations with architects, data scientists, neuroscientists, musicians and more. Witness otherworldly installations that might make you rethink the future of tech and creativity.
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Eesha Sullivan
August 19, 2020 at 5:51 pm
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Nekrotica
August 19, 2020 at 5:54 pm
so he’s a programmer with an ego…
Edwin Setiawan
August 19, 2020 at 5:55 pm
Beyond my limit imagination. So awesome.
Edwin Setiawan
August 19, 2020 at 5:57 pm
Where is it?
Ramon Figueiredo
August 19, 2020 at 6:32 pm
It’s awsome but will never substitute an oil painting made by a human. That seems like something you can use and throw away, like changing channels on a TV
Leandro Godoy
August 19, 2020 at 6:42 pm
Amazing!!
Subramanya M
August 19, 2020 at 6:44 pm
Beautiful.. yes it’s the first step in the revaluation of art.
Pzev
August 19, 2020 at 6:51 pm
Please tell me if there is ANY way to get an HD download of any of these data paintings, I like NEED it as a screensaver lol, this is amazing!
Rajesh Prem
August 19, 2020 at 7:23 pm
So he is basically programming “the reveries”
Waleed Ahmad
August 19, 2020 at 8:02 pm
Added to my favorite ted talks list.
stillpaints
August 19, 2020 at 8:20 pm
Meh…screensavers
Lori Lynch
August 19, 2020 at 8:29 pm
AI is all around us. Not sure people are aware🧐🤔 beautiful work. The algorithms are infinity.
Succulent Lord
August 19, 2020 at 8:34 pm
I hate artists like this. Cliche surface level explorations of emergent tech with an overly accessible thesis. Big data? ugh. Also typical that the artists and designers working for him that actually create the works are in the background.
Simone Priore
August 19, 2020 at 10:53 pm
All the artists nowdays owns a studio with people working for them. To do this kind of work you can’t do this all alone, he talked about neuroscientist also
Sayantani Bhattacharya
August 19, 2020 at 8:45 pm
I was super drawn into this talk.. thank you
Sascha
August 19, 2020 at 8:59 pm
Good idea to include visual stimulation in a Ted talk . Keeps my short attention.
ennryu tes
August 19, 2020 at 9:25 pm
the digital version of the akashik records, i like it <3
Sneha Prajapati
August 19, 2020 at 9:49 pm
What a coincidence to watch this just after Completion of my course on AR and VR. Loved the insight of Art via science❣️
Last First
August 19, 2020 at 9:51 pm
havent i already seen this on another channel?!
quanny
August 19, 2020 at 10:25 pm
When I imagine the dude in blade runner who designs the giant billboards and holograms I see this guy. Dude is a real life cyberpunk character
Peter Warner
August 19, 2020 at 10:37 pm
so cool
5 Mins 5 Ideas
August 19, 2020 at 10:56 pm
Very cool video. AI in Art is so fascinating. I recently made a video on it totally convinced that AI could become better artists. However I wondered if we would value AI Art as much as human art. Especially knowing the personal turmoils of the artist that is the soul of the art. 🤔 Maybe not.
scummy_ _person
August 19, 2020 at 11:15 pm
11:42 that is a lot of skill trees
Mill Eudic
August 19, 2020 at 11:16 pm
Generative algorithms, process what the AI algorithms are constant learning. Now, do we allow decision algorithms? Yes, but only to an level of the creators consciousness. AI must not develop into an creator, that bypasses into self sufficiency.
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Jaden Goter
August 19, 2020 at 11:57 pm
Pretty cool work. Let’s remember not to romanticize Blade Runner, though–it’s a warning, not an aesthetic!
Tony Mann
August 20, 2020 at 1:01 am
Im lactose intolerant and just had a glass of milk uhh so much pain
Reginald Chislett
August 20, 2020 at 5:53 am
IMAGINE…. Applying these tools to gaming!! 😳
mike .D
August 20, 2020 at 6:22 am
Any one that thinks Ted talks are not deep state generated with actors is a fool. The AI agenda is simply evil , get ready to get royaly screwed morons ..” Its a conspiracy theory” will be your Epitaph !
MARINA
August 20, 2020 at 6:43 am
INTERESTING STORY, BUT, there is no art in it! 🙁
JAY SHOWCASE
August 20, 2020 at 9:08 pm
Art-ificial.
Mayank Sharma
August 20, 2020 at 6:55 am
This gives a very Black Mirror vibe.
Jamil Gannaban
August 20, 2020 at 7:14 am
As immersive and beautiful looking as it is, it still feels like a glorified light show. I’m sure there is still more it can do.
To be able to show the beauty of memory is amazing, but the ability to interact in a positive and practical way will always be more than aesthetics.
Austin Brown
August 20, 2020 at 7:20 am
My girlfriend has hyperthymesia. She remembers almost every single detail of life. Idk why but I feel like this and the amygdala being what processes and stores memories is something that needs to be looked at further
Mertcan DUYAN
August 20, 2020 at 7:23 am
Great 👏🏽
Roya Ebrahim
August 20, 2020 at 7:24 am
🤯❤
ROSHAN JOHN MATHEW
August 20, 2020 at 8:08 am
New things to make you high… great! Well done humans… depression is going to be more like an important part of our mind soon…
Jithin Prakash
August 20, 2020 at 8:43 am
Looks like a footage from Christopher Nolan movie 🪐
Miraoui Adam
August 20, 2020 at 9:17 am
This guy looks like Dr Octopus from Spiderman
Citlaly Sánchez
August 20, 2020 at 9:48 am
Acosador de Lola land
Nicholas Kuijlaars
August 20, 2020 at 10:18 am
Michelintelligence
solitude Me
August 20, 2020 at 11:59 am
why can’t he distinguish the difference between v and w sound?
Александр
August 20, 2020 at 7:25 pm
Yeah! Those foreighners can’t even talk like natives, pathetic
Matteo Muscas
August 20, 2020 at 1:44 pm
Okay but how much power do you need to create such things .O.
Mark Kerwin
August 20, 2020 at 3:02 pm
Wow, first time discovering this and now a huge fan of Refik Anadol’s art and vision!! well done, very empowering and inspiring
g405t
August 20, 2020 at 3:22 pm
It would be scary if the guy talking was a character the AI made, and is not human at all…..
meindorf123
August 20, 2020 at 3:51 pm
They couldn’t have fit more adds in this, even if they wanted
D. V
August 20, 2020 at 5:56 pm
Beaitiful! Great! Was in my mind also when i sow the first time of my life Ghery museum. Love your mind.
Richard Earnest
August 20, 2020 at 6:18 pm
….wow… 😢😨😊
Orion Yang
August 20, 2020 at 6:31 pm
You are Chinese hung
Damn Dumb
August 20, 2020 at 8:07 pm
I work in “AI”. The technology used in this presentation is just polished technology that exists since few to many years.
Nothing revolutionary nor really intelligent. Those models can’t even play tic tac toe. There’s no intent, no planning (unless you specifically trained it to do so).
As many others, this guy humanise programs by saying think, hallucinate, dream. Where it is really not that at all.
But yeah it looks beautiful.
srtghfnbfg
August 21, 2020 at 2:07 am
I completely agree, he couldve looked at the new research where AI allows you to replace parts of an image seamlessly with other textures, and a lot of others that are valid AI uses for graphical design (that i cant remember off the top of my head) but he chose to make over glorified wallpapers lol.
Damn Dumb
August 21, 2020 at 5:59 am
@srtghfnbfg image inpaiting is the same idea, this is not an AGI.
srtghfnbfg
August 21, 2020 at 6:15 am
@Damn Dumb but image inpainting is also relatively new, and i just meant that he didn’t even talk or use that although it fits both “Art” and “AI”. But i never said anything about AGI (and i think the video didn’t either, otherwise that artist would be way in over his head) and this clearly isnt generalizable to anything unless you want to make unique wallpapers lol 😂
Jasperi
August 21, 2020 at 1:02 pm
The point of this is not developing new technology, its the application of that tech to the arts.
JAY SHOWCASE
August 20, 2020 at 9:08 pm
Art-ificial Decoration.
Luc א
August 20, 2020 at 10:19 pm
AI is not good for advanced physics fluids models (lacks an unknown constant plus a variable rate we haven’t solved or discovered yet) so it cannot make anything we consider or should invest into as art. Its analysis of human social issues however is valid
soulless
August 20, 2020 at 11:47 pm
I’ve seen his exhibitions in person, and it’s worth it. Go check it out. It’s really calming and surreal.
asa ki
August 21, 2020 at 1:48 am
Cool, cool, cool.
Darshan Shah
August 21, 2020 at 4:47 am
Phone companies should have him create live wallpapers tbh
Thịnh Phạm
August 21, 2020 at 7:22 am
3:25 I think I see the similar one in South Korea
Ruby
August 21, 2020 at 7:46 am
This guy spreads such a good energy.
Edward
August 21, 2020 at 7:46 am
I’ve heard about this before actually, i’ve seen these aestethic visuals. This is simply amazing!
marsterrace
August 21, 2020 at 7:46 am
This is absolutely game changing. Imagine that everything that was posted online and collected as data, it can actually turn into visuals. This would be revolutionary for upcoming generations.
Jeffrey
August 21, 2020 at 7:48 am
This machine is somehow remind me of Transendence of Johny Depp. I’m getting chills over my body!
Lechiffresix six
August 21, 2020 at 8:53 pm
Jeff, you don’t need much to get those chills.
Martha
August 21, 2020 at 7:49 am
As an art lover that I am, this left me speechless! Where can we come and see these aesthetic art works?
Nikhil Nava
August 21, 2020 at 7:56 am
Im impressed Refik! This could help people visit places that they could never see.
Ronald
August 21, 2020 at 7:56 am
These images are so calming.
Patricia
August 21, 2020 at 7:57 am
Omg! The part when he talks about his uncle, is insane. They can actually save memories and visualise them!
Katerina Barnett
August 21, 2020 at 7:57 am
Apparently bulidings can dream lol.
lumbernutty
August 21, 2020 at 7:59 am
This is so beautiful! What you did with the Walt Disney bulding shocked me in a good way!
Merto6
August 21, 2020 at 10:02 am
what a load of nonsense
Antoine F.
August 21, 2020 at 3:31 pm
“how i made abstract images with data visualization and call it IA, how i earn lot of money from people that don’t know what i’m taking about”
jungastein
August 21, 2020 at 3:52 pm
machine intelligence is an oxymoron
The Shades
August 21, 2020 at 5:00 pm
“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
From a Youtuber 💞💞
Invox
August 21, 2020 at 9:13 pm
10:15 GEEEEEZUS! 😵
Ilya Fadin
August 21, 2020 at 11:04 pm
don’t like this guy’s smiley face. something’s wrong with it
The Playing Dutchman
August 23, 2020 at 1:04 am
Your superficiality might be wrong.
Ilya Fadin
August 21, 2020 at 11:08 pm
also, the technology that is used behind this glitter is quite simple. there are much more interesting things are happening now without such noise in the world
Michael Flynn
August 24, 2020 at 9:51 am
Can you give us an idea of the tech backbone please..
Chrichele Saavedra
August 22, 2020 at 12:27 am
Have a good day everyone- Chrichele Saavedra #trendy
Gibeom Lee
August 22, 2020 at 4:53 am
I always thought he’s like Nam June Paik but in 21st century
Pagan Skye
August 22, 2020 at 2:57 pm
Interesting
ニ ク ラ ス 乡,
August 22, 2020 at 9:06 pm
what a crazy and interesting dream this guy chases, its mesmerizing
ADjustinG2013
August 22, 2020 at 11:57 pm
mission intelligence.
yann Bretonnière
August 23, 2020 at 12:50 am
ignorants peoples goes and goes more and more ina artificial matrix fallowing transhumlanian scared to go out of illusion .. they created by illusion
Muhammad Usman
August 23, 2020 at 11:10 am
So basically he is using data to make 3d animated art?
Anele Mdlopane
August 23, 2020 at 6:13 pm
This is incredible
BTR RTB
August 23, 2020 at 6:49 pm
❤️❤️❤️
TRW Anon
August 23, 2020 at 11:27 pm
I could this used as therapy for mental health, healing, etc.
TRW Anon
August 23, 2020 at 11:27 pm
I could used this as therapy for mental health, healing, etc.
Celebrate Life
August 24, 2020 at 4:19 am
Are digital projections and augmented reality the future of art?
andybaldman
August 24, 2020 at 4:41 am
None of this is worth spreading. TED has become a marketing platform.
Madhav Nadar
August 24, 2020 at 6:54 am
This video stands to prove a fact that not only machines took over blue collar jobs and in the near future it will take over white collar jobs like banking, tourism, medical field etc. But also something what makes humans individuals like art, music and do it way better than humans could ever do. The future is amazing and and terrifying at the same level.
lifefan
August 24, 2020 at 11:36 am
I immediately knew that he is Turkish when he opens his mouth to talk😂
Michael Flynn
August 24, 2020 at 12:42 pm
Great salesman
Wei Chao Tee
August 24, 2020 at 1:24 pm
Frank Gehry’s Concert Hall was a nice addition!
Rita Rosa
August 24, 2020 at 2:45 pm
Hello. I wanted to ask you Tedx please, since I am not of English nationality, if you could put Italian subtitles in more videos? I do not understand anything unfortunately in videos that talk about beautiful topics!Please!It would be great!
I don’t mean all of them, but just a little more, there are very few in sub ita!
Yi Liao
August 24, 2020 at 7:30 pm
This is just another desperate try to create a “new” art. There’s no new art.
Francisco Galárraga
August 24, 2020 at 9:10 pm
So mostly fluid dynamic cube particles…
Kevin Ward
August 24, 2020 at 10:27 pm
Use warm light LEDs blue light causes brain damage other than that it’s incredible
ashtamkar aharon
August 24, 2020 at 11:18 pm
Hey you! Yes you. Close your eyes and relax, everything is okay right now. Be happy.✅✔️💎💎💎😉😉👍💯😇
Who is Q
August 25, 2020 at 12:44 am
AI will:
Cure diseases
Destroy language barriers
Enhance memory
Redefine what we thought possible.
Before it: Destroys us.
H A N
August 25, 2020 at 2:39 am
lol
Tarit VERMA
August 25, 2020 at 1:53 am
please leave a area of creativity and art and music for humans , because there is already taken more than half of the field by AI and robots .
Master long
August 25, 2020 at 5:18 am
Just incredible…
Graff Kim
August 25, 2020 at 7:48 am
#SaveTEDRussia наглые шавки
Schrodinger Cat
August 25, 2020 at 1:20 pm
It would be really helpful if this channel start adding more information about the speaker in the discription. (Information like qualifications,etc)
Edit: Suggestions should be added for those who want to make career such extraordinary things.
Giorno Giovanna
August 25, 2020 at 4:33 pm
11:22 Human to God.
Bhuvi Mangwani
August 25, 2020 at 7:01 pm
To a bystander seeing your work who is not aware of the data that goes into these pieces, how is it different from any normal pattern
Corner Strong • 69 years ago
August 25, 2020 at 10:55 pm
Does anyone use Replika here?