AI Agents is a podcast representing a collaboration between the Sia Furler Institute (https://arts.adelaide.edu.au/music/sia-furler-institute/) and The Australian Institute for Machine Learning (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/aiml/) at the University of Adelaide (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/) as a part of the Art Intelligence Agency. Through conversational interviews, the podcast explores the intersections of contemporary art and artificial intelligence with a distinct focus on how this relates to human creativity. Hosted by Tim Whiffen of Whimsy Productions (http://whimsyproductions.com/), this podcast represents the work of many respected contributors to the Art and AI fields. The possibilities of AI stretch beyond imagination, and yet are limited by the lack of inbuilt imaginative consciousness in machine learning. Follow the series as it distinguishes the prospects from the constraints of this modern technology. Upcoming interviews include creatives, stakeholders, and academics in the fields of philosophy, physiology, art, information technology, and music. Subscribe to the podcast on your favourite podcatcher and consider giving it a review. If you have any feedback, examples or topic suggestions please get in contact with Tim: tim@whimsyproductions.com (mailto:tim@whimsyproductions.com).
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Ep 17: Agent Alan Thompson - Do AI Write of Electric Sheep?
AI consultant Dr. Alan D. Thompson discusses the creative and messy nature of AI-generated language and his AI Leta's authored children's book.
17 Sept 2021
Ep 16: Agent Ramon Amaro - Can Machines Perceive in Totality?
Host Tim Whiffen interviews Dr. Ramon Amaro, Lecturer in Visual Cultures at University College London, about the cultural impacts and criticisms of AI perception and Afrofuturism.
21 Aug 2021
Ep 15: Agent Anthony Fraiser - Leveraging AI for Creative Content
Anthony Fraiser, CEO of ABF Creative, discusses with the Art Intelligence Agency how AI drives commercial innovation in content creation and storytelling.
26 Jun 2021
Ep 14: Agent Marcus du Sautoy - Formulating a Creative Outcome
Oxford University mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores if mathematics holds the key to coding creative outcomes in AI art during this interview.
5 Jun 2021
Ep 13: Agent Marian Mazzone - When AI Writes the History Books
Host Tim Whiffen interviews Professor Marian Mazzone, an expert in computational art history, about how AI classifies and analyzes art, revealing new creative potential.
20 May 2021
Ep 12: Agent Tim Gruchy Pt2 - Incorporating Technology into Organic Expression
Host Tim Whiffen interviews artist Tim Gruchy about integrating technology into organic artistic expression and exploring AI's role in complex sensory experiences.
7 May 2021
Ep 11: Agent Tim Gruchy Pt1 - Complex Experience through the Eyes of AI
Host Tim Whiffen interviews artist Tim Gruchy about AI's role in creating complex sensory experiences and meaningful art.
24 Apr 2021
Ep 10: Agent Tega Brain - Engineering Art for Ecological Needs
Host Tim Whiffen interviews Tega Brain, Industry Assistant Professor at NYU, exploring how AI art engineering addresses ecological needs and critiques commercial machine learning.
16 Apr 2021
Ep 9: Agent Lev Manovich - Machines are Already More Creative Than Us
Presidential Professor Lev Manovich and host Tim Whiffen explore how AI is already more creative than humans, reshaping digital culture and aesthetics.
26 Mar 2021
Ep 8: Agent Ellen Broad - Artificial *Human* Intelligence
Data policy expert Ellen Broad discusses how artificial intelligence is fundamentally an extension of human intelligence, revealing insights from her book "Made by Humans: The AI Condition" in this interview.
12 Mar 2021
Ep 7: Agent Marcus Endicott - Being Virtual in a Material World
You may know virtual bots like "Siri" or "Alexa", and you may have chatted to a bot to order a pizza, but virtual beings take these foundations to the next level. Even now we imagine personalities for our virtual assistants which amount to lines of code; we give them pronouns and ask them if they love us (just for a joke). But what happens when there is a reality like that depicted in the Hollywood films “Her”, or in "Bladerunner 2049"? Virtual assistants and chatbots have integrated into our lives without much fuss, but what about the more complex 'beings' that are being developed in virtual reality? Will these be accepted so easily? What could we use them to do if they are? Agent Marcus Endicott joins the art intelligent agency to answer these questions and discuss his foundational work in the field.
You can find more of Marcus' work (meta-guide.com) and follow his moderated community on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/virtualbeings).
This Podcast was Produced by Tim Whiffen of Whimsy Productions (http://whimsyproductions.com/) in Association with Art Intelligence Agency, the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/aiml/), and Sia Furler Institute (https://arts.adelaide.edu.au/music/sia-furler-institute/) of the University of Adelaide (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/).
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26 Feb 2021
Ep 6: Agent David Olney - The Merit of Boring AI
So far we've shown some ways in which artists and engineers are using AI in creative ways or in creative processes and it has been a fascinating philosophical journey. In this episode, we bring Agent David Olney (as featured in episode 4) back on the podcast to discuss why AI can be 'boring' and still innovative. High reliability is a quality in contention with creativity in many ways. As a blind academic, David uses AI to get around, assess his surroundings, or even read to him and those processes have to be reliable. These programs aren't creative in conventional ways, they don't interpret art or have creative expression, but designing these programs requires thinking beyond your own limitations, and considering the needs of people with different perceptions of the world.
Find David's work on his website (https://mtchl.net/), or follow him on Twitter (https://twitter.com/djolney3?lang=en).
This Podcast was Produced by Tim Whiffen of Whimsy Productions (http://whimsyproductions.com/) in Association with the Art Intelligence Agency, the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/aiml/), and the Sia Furler Institute (https://arts.adelaide.edu.au/music/sia-furler-institute/) of the University of Adelaide (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/).
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12 Feb 2021
Ep 5: Agent Mitchell Whitelaw - Data as a Tool for Aesthetic Creations
The act of using code or data and giving them aesthetic outcomes is the project of the 21st century, the information age. With all of this information and computing power at our disposal, it doesn't seem like we are far from the kinds of machine learning that can autonomously visually impress us if it were even inclined to produce such things. Dr Mitchell Whitelaw of the Australian National University is sceptical about Artificial intelligence being inclined to produce art autonomously in ways we would accept or appreciate but has a thorough understanding of ways this technology can be used to create art with human direction or collaboration. As an expert in generative art, Mitchell's work has looked into the randomness and surprise we can get from code, but it is always the human directing the data for the truly creative work. In this discussion, we drill down into the considerations of generative art, the limitations of AI art, and how representing data is a creative and artistic exercise worthy of cultural appreciation.
Find Mitchell's work on his website (https://mtchl.net/), or follow him on Twitter (https://twitter.com/mtchl).
This Podcast was Produced by Tim Whiffen of Whimsy Productions (http://whimsyproductions.com/) in Association with the Art Intelligence Agency, the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/aiml/), and Sia Furler Institute (https://arts.adelaide.edu.au/music/sia-furler-institute/) of the University of Adelaide (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/).
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29 Jan 2021
Ep 4: Agent Saqib Shaikh - Seeing the world through AI (Featuring Agent David Olney)
When we look at a painting or gaze upon a movie scene, we gather the visual information on what objects are, why something may be moving, and what that might mean. For a machine, these inputs break down to 1s and 0s to make sense of this information through algorithms and patterns. Visual systems are incredibly complex, and replicating them for those without sight is a significant technological challenge. Agent Saqib Shaikh is a software engineer at Microsoft and project lead of Seeing AI, a mobile application that narrates the world around us. To address the capability of AI for visually impaired people, Agent Saqib, co-founder of Seeing AI joins Tim and guest host Agent David Olney to discover more about the program.
Learn more about Seeing AI here. (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/seeing-ai)
Agent David Olney is a blind academic at the University of Adelaide and a Human Performance Consultant. You can follow his work here. (https://davidolney.com.au/)
This Podcast was Produced by Tim Whiffen of Whimsy Productions (http://whimsyproductions.com/) in Association with Art Intelligence Agency, the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/aiml/), and Sia Furler Institute (https://arts.adelaide.edu.au/music/sia-furler-institute/) of the University of Adelaide (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/).
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15 Jan 2021
Ep 3: Agent Jon McCormack - The Great Partnership between Human and Machine
Professor Jon McCormack of Monash University joins the Art Intelligence Agency to discuss the considerations of pairing human creative endeavours with the strict logic of computer technology. Jon's understanding of art and science give him great insight into the relationship humans have with computers. With AI being incorporated into more creative tools and forming the modern zeitgeist, why should humans care? What about these new technologies appeals to creatives and engineers and what is yet to come? Jon's experience directing Sensilab (https://sensilab.monash.edu/) make for a perfect platform to leap from as this podcast explores the nexus between creativity and machine learning.
See more of Jon's work from his research profile (https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/jon-mccormack), Portfolio (https://jonmccormack.info/tag/ai/), or at Sensilab (https://sensilab.monash.edu/people/jon-mccormack/).
This Podcast was Produced by Tim Whiffen of Whimsy Productions (http://whimsyproductions.com/) in Association with the Art Intelligence Agency, the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/aiml/), and the Sia Furler Institute (https://arts.adelaide.edu.au/music/sia-furler-institute/) of the University of Adelaide (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/).
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1 Jan 2021
Ep 2: Agent Jon Opie & Agent Ben Lancer - What Makes a Creative Mind a Mind at All?
Dr Jonathan Opie and Benjamin Lancer join the Art Intelligence Agency to dispense their collective expertise on how machines can resemble organic intelligence. While machines have been able to solve the traveling salesman problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem) for decades, mould has been able to solve it for millions of years. If humans are capable of imagination and creativity, AI has a long way to catch up with evolved brains. So are machines capable of creativity? And are humans even capable of 'new' thoughts? This episode discusses the human (organic) brain and consciousness, and how we can model and compare artificial intelligence to gain insight on artistic machines now, and in the future.
See more of Jon's work from his research profile (https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/jonathan.opie).
See more of Ben's work from his research profile (https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/benjamin.lancer).
This Podcast was Produced by Tim Whiffen of Whimsy Productions (http://whimsyproductions.com/) in Association with the Art Intelligence Agency, the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/aiml/), and Sia Furler Institute (https://arts.adelaide.edu.au/music/sia-furler-institute/) of the University of Adelaide (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/).
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18 Dec 2020
Ep 1: Agent Sam Leach - Automatic Learning Augmenting the Creative Process
Sam Leach joins the podcast to discuss his artistic work in his latest collection titled Fully Automatic, which featured at Sullivan & Strumpf in Sydney in 2020. Sam excels as an artist by his own merit, but what if we pair him up with some machine learning? Dr Matthew McAuley (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmatthewmcauley/?originalSubdomain=uk) from Belfast helped Sam implement algorithms from a DCGAN, (Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network) to automate the process of studying aesthetics through time. Sam's previous award-winning work also went into the mix allowing the AI to produce images which Sam painted resulting in a truly surreal outcome. This episode discusses the realities of working with AI as an artist and the future prospects of creative augmentation using machine learning.
See more of Sam's work on his Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/samleach_00/?hl=en), or check out his website (http://www.samleach.net/).
This Podcast was Produced by Tim Whiffen of Whimsy Productions (http://whimsyproductions.com/) in Association with Art Intelligence Agency, the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/aiml/), and Sia Furler Institute (https://arts.adelaide.edu.au/music/sia-furler-institute/) of the University of Adelaide (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/).
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