{"id":13419,"date":"2022-08-29T20:06:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T20:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/art\/refik-anadol-on-how-ai-imagination-elevates-memory-with-nfts\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T20:06:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T20:06:39","slug":"refik-anadol-on-how-ai-imagination-elevates-memory-with-nfts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/art\/refik-anadol-on-how-ai-imagination-elevates-memory-with-nfts\/","title":{"rendered":"Refik Anadol on How AI ‘Imagination’ Elevates Memory With NFTs"},"content":{"rendered":"
On June 25, 1949, the British neurologist Geoffrey Jefferson gave a lecture to the Royal College of Surgeons of England entitled The Mind of Mechanical Man<\/em>. It may be surprising that machine intelligence was the subject of much debate in Jefferson\u2019s time, with some describing the 1904s as the period in which artificial intelligence was born following the development of cybernetics. Jefferson\u2019s ideas about the intersection of human and machine were ahead of their time and even impressed the great Alan Turing with their prescience and clarity.<\/p>\n \u201c[N]ot until a machine can write a sonnet or a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain \u2014 that is, not only write it but know that it had written it,\u201d Jefferson said in his lecture. \u201cNo mechanism could feel (and not merely artificially signal, an easy contrivance) pleasure at its successes, grief when its valves fuse, be warmed by flattery, be made miserable by its mistakes, be charmed by sex, be angry or miserable when it cannot get what it wants.\u201d<\/p>\n Whether they know it or not, critics of artificial intelligence\u2019s application in the art world \u2014 and by extension, the world of NFTs \u2014 employ a version of Jefferson\u2019s argument when they decry that the technology takes something away from the creative \u201csoul\u201d of artists and their work.<\/p>\n But one look at recent computing advances, and it seems like the train has left the station. Millions of people are already learning how to make AI art. Thanks to prompt-based programs like MidJourney, DALL-E 2, and Stable Diffusion that turn text into images, creating art in tandem with AI has become commonplace. Developers are leaning heavily on the technology to help build out their NFT project visions. Companies are even working to give NFTs AI brains.<\/p>\n Of course, this could be assuming the consequent: Simply increasing the computational and adaptive powers of computing systems and calling it AI might not necessarily mean that these systems experience the drive to curiosity and sense of internal self-awareness that humans experience. Then again, the internal experience of consciousness and ego could also be an illusion. But to modern AI developers, thinking of humans as a special case might be outdated.<\/p>\n \u201cIn every chapter of humanity, endeavors and innovations and discoveries always light up some dinosaur views,\u201d retorted Refik Anadol, the pioneering visual artist whose work sits at the intersection of digital media and machine learning, in an interview with nft now. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s very normal. But to me, there\u2019s an artist; there\u2019s a desire. There\u2019s a prompt; there\u2019s a request; there is an input. I think this is pure collaboration \u2014 imagination with a machine.\u201d<\/p>\n Anadol is well-known in the NFT space and beyond for his immersive (and often interactive) AI-infused pieces, including Melting Memories, a project inspired by his uncle\u2019s Alzheimer\u2019s diagnosis, An Important Memory for Humanity, which dropped in April of this year, and Unsupervised \u2014 Machine Hallucinations, which trained an AI model on the metadata of the Museum of Modern Art\u2019s collection.<\/p>\nThe question of artificial intelligence<\/h2>\n