With data as his paintbrush, media artist Refik Anadol trains AI algorithms to visualize the disappearing wonders of nature. He gives a beautiful tour of his recent work — imagery of artificial coral reefs, flowers, rainforests — and ponders: Can we use AI to preserve our memories of the fading natural world?
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Steph F
August 25, 2023 at 7:57 am
We do not consent
Skidrow
August 25, 2023 at 11:58 am
Your corporate overlords don’t care. Submit and you shall flourish, Resist and you will be perished.
Aspartame69
August 25, 2023 at 8:18 am
Communists.
Mr. Unknown
August 25, 2023 at 8:25 am
Data visualisation is not Art.
Someone that struggles to grasp the semantic meaning of a word should lecture anyone on such term…
Skidrow
August 25, 2023 at 11:59 am
Shouldn’t
Karen Tapia
August 25, 2023 at 8:41 am
No.
Toni
August 25, 2023 at 8:57 am
Turn that introduction exposion off or at least, down to the volume of the speach.
Marius Fanea
August 25, 2023 at 8:58 am
An artist has to spend a lifetime of studying shapes and colors, never-ending, failure, just that one day he or she might be able to create something that an AI can render in a matter of minutes.
ihonestlydon'tcare
August 25, 2023 at 9:20 am
i am a photographer and illustrator and honestly, this stuff worries me to no end and i hate how they push it. my career could end any minute now.
Marius Fanea
August 25, 2023 at 9:37 am
@kabukimanindahouse I used to do concept drawings, and now I just keep the ideas stored inside my head, hoping that one day I might have the courage to start again. It doesn’t really worry me for now, cause most of the concepts that AI produces are beautiful but random, for now.
Skidrow
August 25, 2023 at 10:31 am
@ihonestlydon’tcareDude i am Senior Data Scientist who got layed off 4 months ago. Worked at Deloitte for good 5 years had good relations with fellow co-workers & superiors and most importantly good performance record, but at the end of the day still got layed off in the month of May-2023, citing lacks of projects as the major reason. When in reality i know these companies are deliberately downsizing their human workforce, so they can train AI models on the tasks with much fewer and fewer people to check the AI’s work. Honestly the Age of AI has only brought more doom and gloom for the common man. Alot more tech layoffs are on the way, the Faang companies have drastically reduced overall hiring, some have actually stopped new hiring altogether. Your job isn’t safe regardless of which career you choose.
Jawn Explores
August 25, 2023 at 8:05 pm
@ihonestlydon’tcareharness, and innovate – but I understand your points. Not great for getting regular work.. /paid
Samuel Zev
August 25, 2023 at 9:00 am
Might be better to use A.I to find faster solution to our energy dependence in fossil fuels because that’s the prime reason why we have climate change.
Le Anh Tu
August 25, 2023 at 9:11 am
As a software developer, I’d like to caution against letting software developers envision what the world should look like.
Skidrow
August 25, 2023 at 10:41 am
Exactly
Mert Kırımgeri
August 25, 2023 at 6:52 pm
That’s a self deprecating statement.
ihonestlydon'tcare
August 25, 2023 at 9:14 am
I seriously don’t understand why AI needs to do art so badly. It’s the only thing expressing the essence of humanity, that wasn’t meant to be replicated by a machine. The human expression isn’t found in slinging around Amazon boxes for minimum wage, something a robot should be doing. No, we have to force the robots doing art. One day you’ll see how boring and dystopian it’s going to be, if art, creation and storytelling is only made by artificial intelligence. It’s already too late.
Hackille
August 25, 2023 at 9:15 am
nah dude. how did this guy even manage to get on stage. wtf.
Jayde Tayla
August 25, 2023 at 9:26 am
Yeah, no thanks. I’d rather my art be created and conjured up by a REAL human person. AI art is nothing but soulless trash.
Skidrow
August 25, 2023 at 12:00 pm
Your corporate overlords have some plans for you.
Manuel B
August 25, 2023 at 9:54 am
GREAT, with this tech we we won’t need nature, indigenous peoples or wiseness anymore. Why is it that elit’s children are always providing solutions disconnected from nature’s and people’s daily struggles? Don’t bother, it’s just rethorical.
Peter Weller
August 25, 2023 at 10:04 am
I would like to live long enough to see that.
gelatonio
August 25, 2023 at 10:26 am
this is such a disheartening video to see. goodbye ted talks maybe will see you soon with the AI-generated videos x
XerosXIII
August 25, 2023 at 10:58 am
Incredible works.
Also hoping for the best for humanity in this new era.
Skidrow
August 25, 2023 at 12:03 pm
There is no humanity beyond this Age. All and everything is done by AI, we are going to human cognition. Maybe we require data engineers and machine learning experts for now but even they will be replaced soon.
lc3
August 25, 2023 at 11:38 am
No
Ya
August 25, 2023 at 12:23 pm
It started with furrys smh
fmbray
August 25, 2023 at 1:00 pm
I’ve never hated a TED talk until now. The fact that AI is taking over the humanity of us all instead of the menial labor and things that it *could* be used for, is absolutely damning. This is not art. This is not really “preserving” nature other than sewing together multiple images human photographers have taken. This mishmash of images does nothing exciting or revolutionary other than dulling the human imagination and collective consciousness. It doesn’t create, it takes existence and cobbles together a bunch of pixels into a poor facsimile of what it’s supposed to replicate.
Tatiane Braga dos Reis
August 25, 2023 at 1:37 pm
It’s not about substitution…it’s about growing. Technology offers tools, not inteligence. There’s no Artificial Intelligence, but artificial models which emulate thinking. We are actually affraid of ourselves, our lack of principles and emphaty
Fabio Silveira
August 25, 2023 at 7:22 pm
Exactly, but it does not change the fact that it will be used as substitution to some degree. It’s a turning point, just like nuclear fission once was. But the cat is out of the box already, all we can do is try to better reconcile our workflow around this huge new tool and hope it doesn’t have such a negative impact on the lives of everyone.
superAIsor
August 25, 2023 at 2:31 pm
Refik Anadol’s work is nothing short of breathtaking. The fusion of data, art, and nature captures the essence of our rapidly changing world. It’s inspiring to think about how AI can help us preserve and appreciate the fleeting beauty of nature.
getttthis
August 25, 2023 at 3:10 pm
TED should be ashamed to promote this at expense of artists who are already so disrespected and unvalued! AI isn’t capable of anything when it comes to art, it just steals and pretends to make something new that’s just generic, because surprise! it’s uncapable of actual creation, it doesn’t have feelings or a life story or culture to breath something new and life changing into visuals. Push its “wonders” into us is just dystopic bullshit!
Simte
August 25, 2023 at 5:29 pm
Nah, sorry to be pessimistic but human greed taints every technological advance.
Mario Bendor's Comentario
August 25, 2023 at 6:15 pm
What a waste. Preserving nature? Nah! Let’s Artificially preserve it!
It’s depressing.
simonshikos
August 25, 2023 at 7:57 pm
I think the scope of this presentation might not the best. I might be wrong. However, it would be interesting to use AI in order to teach the importance of safeguarding real nature, not just recreate them to preserve our memories of extinct species.
Alex Narinskyi
August 25, 2023 at 8:58 pm
Humanity: destroying life in the name of art since 50000 BC
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Snoozed Sneeze
August 26, 2023 at 4:16 am
Refik Anadol Studios raised 2 million usd (and more in royalties) through their NFT collection called ‘Winds of Yawanawa’. 80% of the funds generated from the collection have been directly donated to the Yawanawa Tribe in their own smart contract in order to help them building a cultural centre that’s focused on empowering them in their quest to educate others about their culture, Amazonian culture as well as the general need for ecological preservation.
20% of the funds go towards production costs for creation, showcasing and distribution of the artwork.
RAS (Studio) and The House of Fine Art (Gallery) aren’t pocketing anything from this. It’s one of the purest versions of altruism we get to see.
And the ‘product’ has all collectors extremely thrilled about it too.
This isn’t the average donation that never reaches those putting in the real work.
MinHo Cha
August 26, 2023 at 8:22 am
love his art journey ❤
Nelson Hernandez Martin
August 26, 2023 at 11:28 am
Maravilloso Rafik!
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August 26, 2023 at 3:56 pm
Thanks ❤❤❤
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August 26, 2023 at 3:56 pm
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Paul danne Lachica
August 26, 2023 at 9:33 pm
Wow
Claus
August 27, 2023 at 5:46 am
Regardless of the kind of storage media, i.e. folk memory, papyrus leaf, kymograph, phonograph; photography, cinematography; magnetic tape,
diskette, hard disk, cd rom, dvd, micro chip;
recorded and stored information prove nothing but accumulated “dead” abstracta of human perception;
remaining useless as long as we deny learning our lessons from History.
Man without Mind, Mind without Memory, Memory without Responsibility, Humanity without Enlightenment on her own account is likely to “defy” AI, for IT can’t substitute for human consciousness and conscience.
Naveen 9
August 27, 2023 at 6:33 pm
Artwork is heartwork. An artist would find AI as interesting tool to contribute to arts related world without overwhelming human contributions in the same.
Being bit old school in arts I donot use AI still but it seems curious.
Littleshin Shin
August 28, 2023 at 11:55 pm
I’m a big fan of him, but this is beyond a joke… AI can’t not replace any of actual thing. AI graphic is merely based on the Media arts. Nothing more. It’s just the mixture of the images
Dan Miller
August 29, 2023 at 4:21 am
This is bullshit. I hope future generations have more than just psychedelic AI generated hallucinations to remember the past. How about we work to preserve what we have?
Kai Elvin
August 31, 2023 at 12:56 pm
What is the difference between this project, and models like MidJourney’s? Any model is biased, but the more resolution, the less possible bias. Midjourney will learn in what conditions a specific plant should be found in.
Biking Like Becker
August 31, 2023 at 6:17 pm
Oh, I thought the title said “How Art Could Enhance Humanity’s Collective Memory”… I was gonna recommend searching images for “Cairn T Ceiling Stone”…
A depiction of an event ~13000 years ago that we are still feeling the effects of today not only Geologically, but also Geo-Politically.. i.e. Jericho is in Palestine/Jordan…
NESherv
August 31, 2023 at 10:30 pm
Complete BS. Art is supposed to be for humans, not machines. A human who prompts Al to make them art isn’t an artist.
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