Applied philosophy of AIThinking human-AI relations beyond dichotomies
Series · 4 episodes
AI and the Myth of Creativity
From Ada Lovelace to Turing: what generative AI does to our idea of creation — and why the wall between the human creator and the copying machine is cracking.
Ada Lovelace's Objection
Can an AI be creative? The question is not new. It was asked at the cradle of computing, by two visionary minds whose intellectual duel still shapes our greatest fears and our greatest hopes.
Alan Turing's Reply
The Lovelace/Turing duel goes round in circles because it rests on a mystical view of creativity. What if escaping the deadlock required a sacrilege: putting creativity itself on the dissection table?
Is Creativity Algorithmic?
We defend our minds as a sanctuary of originality. What if they were in fact a factory? A workshop whose trade is to imitate, compress and recreate the world.
Beyond the Creative Fortress
We thought ourselves original creators facing pale copyists. We are discovering that we too are imitation machines. So what is left of the wall that separated us from AI?