Ted Chiang, Artificial Intelligence, Artifice and Art

Ted Chiang: Artificial Intelligence, Artifice and Art

Does artificial intelligence deserve to be called intelligence? What are the uses of synthetic text and imagery, and what would it take for those to be artistic mediums?

Ted Chiang has been described as the greatest living science fiction writer. His stories have won 4 Hugo awards, 4 Nebula awards, and 6 Locus awards. The Denis Villeneuve film Arrival is an adaptation of Chiang’s "Story of Your Life". Chiang is also a frequent contributor to the New Yorker Magazine, and was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in AI.

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Thanks to the School of Computing, Philosophy Department, Ingenuity Labs, Cultural Studies Program, and English Department for sponsoring this event.