What happens to human creativity when machines can write, paint, compose and even evoke emotion? On this episode of Speaking of … College of Charleston, we explore the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence with Anurag Tiwari, a computer science instructor in the College of Charleston Computing in the Arts program whose background is in computer vision, AI and digital animation.
Tiwari’s journey, from developing video analytics for surveillance to creating interactive installations at places like the Kennedy Space Center, reflects a career at the intersection of technology and art. Now teaching at the College, he helps students navigate a world where AI tools are reshaping creative industries.
Resources from this episode:
- Moondog Animation Studio
- The experiment that argues about what it really means to understand something as a human: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0MD4sRHj1M
- Chinese Room theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
- The decline in the storytelling aspect of movies and the overreliance on CGI: https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/cgi-did-in-fact-ruin-movies
- How compelling stories in movies are independent of whether CGI is used or not: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14441778/
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