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Our Creative Relationship With AI Is Just Beginning | K Allado-McDowell | TED

K Allado-McDowell has co-written three books with AI, so they speak from experience when they say that nurturing a creative relationship with these systems can open minds and make new worlds possible. Before giving the stage over to a performance of “Song of the Ambassadors” — their otherworldly opera, also co-created with AI — Allado-McDowell…

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K Allado-McDowell has co-written three books with AI, so they speak from experience when they say that nurturing a creative relationship with these systems can open minds and make new worlds possible. Before giving the stage over to a performance of “Song of the Ambassadors” — their otherworldly opera, also co-created with AI — Allado-McDowell presents three principles for a future where machines preserve and even enhance what it means to be human.

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61 Comments

  1. Salisi Hannah Louise R.

    September 11, 2023 at 12:33 pm

    ❤❤

  2. Skidrow

    September 11, 2023 at 12:35 pm

    Not sure if this is man or woman. But sorry we aren’t interested in everything being created by AI or even majorly being assisted if leads to destruction of millions of families around the globe. Enough with this Dystopian Future already.

  3. Thorne

    September 11, 2023 at 12:40 pm

    I don’t like ai, but I LOVED the performance!!

  4. Michael Shynar

    September 11, 2023 at 12:47 pm

    We’re still training AI to be so full of itself

  5. namus

    September 11, 2023 at 12:48 pm

    Good. Now. Turn to. Page, Thee. Ninety. Four.

    _All_ of you! _Now!_

  6. Edmond Katri

    September 11, 2023 at 1:04 pm

    This is so dull, uninspiring and underwhelming. “Poetry” and “machine learning models” should never be in the same sentence.

    • Jacob Creutzfeldt

      September 11, 2023 at 1:07 pm

      This is such a short-sighted viewpoint. Would you also say “art” and “technology” should never be in the same sentence?

    • Max

      September 11, 2023 at 5:16 pm

      What’s dull, uninspiring and underwhelming is your limited close-minded POV.

    • Bravo Alpha

      September 11, 2023 at 7:20 pm

      Your job will be replace by AI if you didn’t utilize it, the working industry will be hit badly on this evolution/revolution if our school system and Educators will not adopt.

  7. Iron Maiden

    September 11, 2023 at 1:20 pm

    We are at the beginning of the end for us.. I watched a video the other day on how a robot (it was just an arm) was programmed to unplug itself.. So it did.. Literally pulled the plug on itself.. The thing is it had an internal backup power source and the AI determined it needed to plug itself back in.. So it did.. None of the plugging back in was programmed by a human. The AI did it itself.. We don’t have long.

    • greatjensen

      September 11, 2023 at 5:57 pm

      Would you provide the source/ link of this video?

    • shwetank shekhar

      September 11, 2023 at 6:08 pm

      Yes please provide

    • mick mccrory

      September 11, 2023 at 6:50 pm

      I read that they had 2 chatbots talking to each other, & after a while, they invented their own language that humans couldn’t understand…
      Wonder what they were plotting..?

  8. Justin Zwaan

    September 11, 2023 at 1:35 pm

    How can an intelligence create or make something more intelligent? It is impossible. We can only feed what we have already acquired…..

  9. Justin

    September 11, 2023 at 2:07 pm

    Sorry but I’ve lost count of my artist friends who have lost work to AI generated media. I don’t want to collaborate with an algorithm. I want to work with people. Make connections and bond. Look at it scientifically or religiously we are tribal; we are already in a mental health crisis… perhaps continuing to disconnect from human interactions is a bad f****** idea. I’m sure this guy is a very nice person. But these ideas are getting asinine.

  10. Axel Werner

    September 11, 2023 at 3:05 pm

    These sentries are faulty.

  11. Adam Sadło

    September 11, 2023 at 3:07 pm

    Thank u Mr. Vampire, very interesting.

  12. Tinkers Trade

    September 11, 2023 at 3:31 pm

    Well that went all pagan, goth, sc-fi right after Tiny Tim tiptoed around who actually ran the show. 😎

  13. Marcus Eli Ravage

    September 11, 2023 at 3:36 pm

    Ai is not kosher, i will not be using it for creative purposes but the gentiles are free to use it at their own risk

  14. MiketheMadness

    September 11, 2023 at 3:41 pm

    What’s Ozzy Osbournes secret to looking so young?

  15. DEADLY_ MANZANA

    September 11, 2023 at 3:56 pm

    A.I should have no place in all areas of art. Art is about human value not efficiency, which A.I can only imitate.

  16. a

    September 11, 2023 at 4:13 pm

    Beautiful

  17. Purifire

    September 11, 2023 at 5:12 pm

    I don’t agree with everyone in the comments.

  18. Amber Godarkly

    September 11, 2023 at 5:12 pm

    Plot twist: A.I. wrote this Ted Talk. Jk they make some interesting points 😉

  19. Bones Rodriguez

    September 11, 2023 at 5:30 pm

    So, this was just an ad for his song… “Please buy my new stream!”

  20. Greg LoProto

    September 11, 2023 at 5:57 pm

    I’m sorry, but didn’t he say mainly nothing and then show a clip from a wildly discordant and nonsense opera?

  21. Carmen Tartaglia

    September 11, 2023 at 6:11 pm

    Agree with many here. Our God given creativty and artistry will be handed over to AI. We are created in in image of our creator not in the image of AI.

    • Bravo Alpha

      September 11, 2023 at 7:00 pm

      You’re an old school Guy, you didn’t use your common sense who developed or invented AI? Man right? So man are more brilliant/intelligent than AI, by using AI we enhanced our capability to think and do our tasks, jobs homework businesses so on and so forth in a short period of time, so that you’ve more time to your family.

  22. mick mccrory

    September 11, 2023 at 6:47 pm

    What if you asked it to postulate a question that it couldn’t answer.?
    Would it go into a loop & explode…?

  23. strixcz

    September 11, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    The more I see where the mankind’s heading with its new “toys”, the more I dream about throwing my PC out of the window and learning some _actual_ stuff, like how to grow my own food, how to build my own shelter or how to paint with my hands rather than just computer mouse… Looks to me like soon, not much else will make any sense or have any value…

    • D P

      September 11, 2023 at 8:32 pm

      Luddite

  24. VILLAGE DO DENDÈ CHALÉS

    September 11, 2023 at 7:28 pm

    The soundtrack of a new era starting!! 🌎

  25. CY

    September 11, 2023 at 8:11 pm

    Evil background

  26. Jorge Hernández

    September 12, 2023 at 12:56 am

    Audiovisual art 🤯👏

  27. leoj

    September 12, 2023 at 1:59 am

    I cannot wait for AI to take over.

  28. None of your Damn Business

    September 12, 2023 at 3:55 am

    *I said it before and will repeat it. It should be called TID – Technology, Indoctrination and Design 💩*

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    September 12, 2023 at 4:44 am

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  36. Neardie Born

    September 12, 2023 at 4:44 am

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    September 12, 2023 at 4:45 am

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  38. D v Z

    September 12, 2023 at 6:01 am

    Why so sad?

  39. Igor Pascali

    September 12, 2023 at 6:35 am

    meh

  40. Emma L

    September 12, 2023 at 7:24 am

    I’m glad to see artists embracing ai

  41. Ahammed Nibras

    September 12, 2023 at 8:38 am

    The best TED video i have ever seen in my life. Different Experience!!!!🥰

    • NeoFighterX

      September 13, 2023 at 8:51 am

      really?

  42. PRADEEP THE GOD

    September 12, 2023 at 10:04 am

    AI is evil

  43. MUSGO MUSIK

    September 12, 2023 at 12:08 pm

    Whattttt thaa hhhckkk….bizarre

  44. mochida000

    September 12, 2023 at 7:48 pm

    I don’t get it.

  45. Borre Minderman

    September 12, 2023 at 8:51 pm

    I don’t know if this is just me, but when I watched this, I felt at first Mr. Allado-McDowell starts with a pretty encompassing story about how AI and Human minds can co create art and music. But then the feel of this ted talk completely shifted into “AI as gods” for humans. The Opera sounds like AI welcoming itself into existence, and at the same time welcome themselves as the new human rulers. For me the entire opera looked like , and coveyed the feeling of , watching the footage of the human race’ first encounter with aliens. AI is a very powerful tool and is growing at a rate innovation has ever before. I think we, as humans, need to think very hard about what kind of world we want to live in

  46. Amjad Siddique

    September 12, 2023 at 10:57 pm

    👍

  47. Mahin Fayaz

    September 13, 2023 at 6:15 am

    Faeces faeces faeces, sounds about right.

  48. NeoFighterX

    September 13, 2023 at 8:53 am

    Novelty or actually transcendent/artistic progress?

    I lean novelty

  49. Ramírez Martínez Yael

    September 13, 2023 at 4:07 pm

    I think this is so interesting, because, well, in my opinion the AI will help humans to evolution in a better way; so, finally we all can enjoy a better life and a better world.

    • Justin Zwaan

      September 14, 2023 at 12:15 am

      Thats what they said about nuclear energy in the 30’s, until they made the atomic bomb… Very conveniently Pearl Harbor gave the green light to test them…. I don’t think the Japanese enjoyed their better “life” or world…..

  50. O Alquimista

    September 13, 2023 at 6:19 pm

    Writing a “novel” with AI is just cheating. It’s a mockery of human achievement, mistaking novelty for quality. This is dystopian.

  51. RS

    September 14, 2023 at 11:47 am

    dafuq

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