Nina Begus: "Generative AI: a new kind of Automedia ?"
11. Jul
17:00h - 19:30h, Centre Pompidou, Salle Triangle (directions)
This seminar is carried out in partnership with the Institute for Research and Innovation, the University of California, Berkeley and the Costech laboratory at the Technological University of Compiègne, in English
Flyer; Website of the seminar series
With: Nina Begus, Gasper Begus; Moderarion: Nina Begus. Organized by Igor Galligo.
"Every technology is molded by our cultural understanding of it, including its fictional representations. The very creation of AI systems and our interactions with them are influenced by how we conceptualize AI. How do fictional representations limit our view, and in what ways are they beneficial? The talk will focus on AI and speech. While AI is imitating human speech, it is also producing its artificial speech in a unique manner. Generative AI presents a yet unprecedented, new kind of automedia:self-productive, automatic, and autonomous but also tied to human design and prompts. No AI system is isolated from its means of production, including broader social and cultural aspects. I'll demonstrate how the cultural implications of language learning have shaped AI products as we recognize them today. I'll introduce a fresh approach to designing AI systems that veers away from the traditional anthropomorphic trajectory. Avoiding external projections can only succeed with enhanced interpretability of automatic and highly generative AI. Engaging in a dialogue with this talk, I'm honored to invite UC Berkeley professor Gašper Beguš, an expert on GANs and speech, and world-renowned artist Pierre Huyghe, who masterfully blurs the lines between human, natural, and technical systems."
(Queries to Igor Galligo: igor.galligo@leuphana.de)