The Uncanny Muse Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
04.02.2025
Verlag
W. W. Norton & CompanySeitenzahl
304 (Printausgabe)
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780393540840
One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025
An acclaimed critic, journalist, and songwriter-musician tells the story of art's relation to machines, from the Baroque period to the age of AI.
What does it mean to be human in a world where machines, too, can be artists? The Uncanny Muse explores the history of automation in the arts and delves into one of the most momentous and controversial aspects of AI: artificial creativity. The adoption of technology and machinery has long transformed the world, but as the potential for artificial intelligence expands, David Hajdu examines the new, increasingly urgent questions about technology's role in culture.
From the life-size mechanical doll that made headlines in Victorian London to the doll's modern AIpop star counterpart, Hajdu traces the fascinating, varied ways in which inventors and artists have sought to emulate mental processes and mechanize creative production. For decades, machines and artists have engaged in expressing the human conditionalong with the condition of living with machinesthrough player pianos, broadcasting technology, electric organs, digital movie effects, synthesizers, and motion capture. By communicating and informing human knowledge, the machines have exerted considerable influence on the history of artand often more influence than humans have been willing to recognize. As Hajdu proclaims: before machine learning, there was machine teaching.
With thoughtful, wide-ranging, and surprising turns from Berry Gordy and George Harrison to Andy Warhol and Stevie Wonder, David Hajdu takes a novel and contrarian approach: he sees how machines through the ages have enabled creativity, not stifled itand The Uncanny Muse sees no reason why this shouldn't be the case with AI today.
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Machines and Obsessions
Diving into this book, I wasn't sure what to expect. An increasing number of AI slop, questions on ownership of data, controversies on what creativity truly is lead me to dive into the subject with the help of David Hajdu. What I found was intriguing. The relationship between machines (or automata) and art has long been existent, and following the author on this historic journey was intriguing. Ranging from art-making "robots" from way before electricity to the advent of machinery, this book interweaves history, anthropolgy, psychology, and technology in an attempt to truly understand the relationship between man and machine. There are no easy answers when it comes to if, how, and why we should or shouldn't be using AI today. If you want to find answers for yourself, though, this is an amazing place to start and a truly insightful examination of how art and technology have never been contradictory (and still remain opposites. Yes, it's complicated.)
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