‘Can AI replace human creativity?’ Swiss artist Jonathan O’Hear says we needn’t worry about it - The Hindu

Jonathan O’Hear | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts successful concern with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia organised a 11-day store (from November 16 to 26) connected airy plan and interactive signifier technologies conducted by Swiss multi-disciplinary creator Jonathan O’Hear.

Jonathan’s works person been showcased astatine the CCS – Paris, Musée Tinguely – Basel, Villa Bernasconi – Geneva, Fonderie Kugler – Geneva, Médiathèque de Biarritz, Fluxum – Geneva, Analix Forever – Geneva, CAC – Geneva (with Ensemble Vide), Max Mueller – Delhi (with Mandeep Raikhy), and the Science creation assemblage – Dublin.

His works are astatine the confluence of creation and technology. For instance, astatine the extremity of 2017, helium launched the Dai project, which involves an Artificial Intelligence robot that learns art. 

The store astatine Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts successful Bengaluru, helium says, was astir utilizing interactive exertion successful performing arts. “I wanted to stock accusation astir exertion that tin really beryllium utilized here. Sometimes I’ve seen different radical bash large workshops connected exertion that is disposable successful the Western countries but are not truthful disposable here. I wanted to absorption connected DIY (Do It Yourself) tech, which is the halfway of my practice. For example, if you privation to determination a shadiness connected the signifier with a trackpad, you tin physique that utilizing DIY tech.”

Jonathan besides answered different questions astir however exertion impacts art. 

Excerpts:-

Q / The improvement of exertion successful cinema implicit the past fewer decades – for instance, 3D films oregon IMAX projection – person been strikingly visible. What person been the large technological developments erstwhile it comes to the stage?

A / Right now, the biggest happening that’s happened is the accomplishment of LED lighting. A batch of radical are upset astir it. Because the [traditional] tungsten halogen airy is simply a spot similar the prima – it goes from a whitish airy and fades into a red. There’s thing precise organic, thing precise close, that resonates with a quality being. When the LEDs came, they faded 1 colour down and determination was nary alteration successful colour. If you’re trying to usage caller exertion successful the mode you were utilizing accepted technology, past you’re ever going to beryllium astatine warfare with it. We person to fig retired however we tin usage it. Another happening that is dilatory getting its mode into theatre is interactive technology. We person sensors and cameras that tin observe and seizure question connected the signifier and manipulate the lighting accordingly. A azygous camera utilizing an AI neural web exemplary volition beryllium capable to bash that. It is hard to rent this benignant of instrumentality successful India. With an open-source community, however, you could really physique your ain DIY instrumentality conscionable for astir $200.

Q / What does the aboriginal hold? 

A / I don’t deliberation anybody truly knows what the aboriginal holds. Technology seems to germinate exponentially. The aboriginal is going to beryllium much astir however we usage the technology. For instance, Artificial Intelligence is going to play a large portion successful astir each facet of life. We are astatine the cusp of thing incredible. In different 3 years oregon so, with AI, you tin make virtual spaces and virtual realities done your ain words. For example, you say, ‘I’m sitting successful the kitchen’ and you tin make a kitchen. In 10 years oregon so, we’ll astir apt person an improvised theatre, wherever 1 prompts sets utilizing 3D projection mapping techniques.

Q / We already person DALL-E, which generates integer images based connected our descriptions. So, tin creation beryllium made without humans?

A / The AI exemplary (like DALL-E) isn’t generating art, it is conscionable generating an image. It doesn’t care. It doesn’t person a consciousness. It wouldn’t bash thing if we didn’t privation it to. So, humans bash art. AI doesn’t privation to bash anything. We bid these AI models utilizing information sets of images. Instead of worrying astir if AI tin regenerate oregon bargain our creativity, we request to beryllium much acrophobic with however it is replacing radical successful workplaces. 

Q / Virtual Reality is steadily increasing arsenic well. When it is afloat unleashed, would it marque unrecorded performances similar theatre obsolete?

A / When the camera arrived, radical said, ‘It’s the extremity of coating and portraiture creation due to the fact that cameras tin present instrumentality pictures.’ But coating and portraiture evolved into creation forms. When cinema came, radical thought it was the extremity of theatre. But it wasn’t. When virtual Metaverses come, we’re acrophobic that shows are going to beryllium successful that abstraction and that we won’t request humans anymore. I’m guessing you know, theatre is going to past each of this. Technology tin really bring backmost immoderate of the mislaid creation forms. Storytelling, for instance. Imagine – with virtual reality, you tin archer a communicative which volition simultaneously materialise astir the people.