AI in the Creative Industries
AI is an eating machine. Techs program it. Feed it our experiences. Teach it how to output. It’s an amalgamation of everybody who interacts with it – a cannibal who takes our industry, and then through algorithms and probability, generates its own material. But that material is built on our creativity, our originality, and our endeavour. What a fucking crock. But here’s something else to consider … Isn’t that just us also? Parents produce us. Environment programs us – parents, sibling, teachers, friends, strangers. We’re a product of all these constructs, which then forms the way we think, and shapes how we navigate life. Occasionally, our behaviour might schism, although usually…
A Look Back: Raiders of the Lost Ark
I’ve been going through a lot of movies in lockdown – a sprinkling of newer movies, some older ones I’ve never seen or saw so long ago I can hardly remember them, as well as movies I love which I thought it would be time to re-watch. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) is one of the re-watches. I first saw this in 1982 as part of a high school class trip to the city – this is when the city had an almost-exclusive monopoly on cinemas, whereas now you find them in every shopping plaza. The teacher had been looking for a movie based around some topic or other…