This conversation is part of the AI & Creativity podcast series, where I talk with the researchers, artists, and founders shaping how machines and human creativity meet. In this episode I spoke with Martin Villiger, one of Switzerland’s most prolific film composers, with credits on more than 130 films, over 400 series episodes, and campaigns for brands like Apple,...

This conversation is part of the AI & Creativity podcast series, where I talk with the researchers, artists, and founders shaping how machines and human creativity meet. In this episode I spoke with Caterina Moruzzi, a Chancellor’s Fellow in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and a BRAID Research Fellow, whose work sits at the intersection of the philosophy...

This conversation is part of the AI & Creativity podcast series, where I talk with the researchers, artists, and founders shaping how machines and human creativity meet. To open the series, I sat down with Ali Nikrang — key researcher and artist at the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz, and a professor at the University for Music and Performing Arts Munich, where he works...

Most of the anxiety about AI and misinformation points at the deepfake: the flawless synthetic forgery that fools everyone. Eduard-Claudiu Gross studies something cruder, more common, and arguably more corrosive, the obvious fake that was never meant to fool you in the first place. Eduard Gross is a communication scholar and researcher at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu in...

We are heading into a world where an effectively infinite amount of digital content can be generated on demand. The obvious fear is that this flood of synthetic media devalues everything human artists make. Ilja Mirsky’s answer runs in the opposite direction. Mirsky is a digital dramaturg, a lecturer at the Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg, and a PhD candidate at...