How AI unleashed (not replaced) my creativity | Kelly A. Boesch
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How AI unleashed (not replaced) my creativity | Kelly A. Boesch

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 14, 20268 min
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After working for years in film, fashion and graphic design, visual artist Kelly A. Boesch found a new collaborator to work with: AI. She walks through how she uses the technology to create dreamlike images and music that remain hauntingly human, exploring the two questions everyone keeps asking her — how do you make it, and is it really art? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day. I'm your host, Elise Heu. Few subjects spark as much debate right now as AI and art.

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Is it a threat to human creativity or a tool that expands it? Visual artist and filmmaker Kelly Besch has spent the last few years exploring this question from the inside using AI as a central part of how she makes her work. Lately, people have been asking me these same two questions.

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Is it really art and how do you do it? And this first one's really hard for me to answer because AI art is brand new and we're all still trying to figure out where it fits in. For the first time, the distance between what I imagined and what I could create has

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