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AI Agents

AI Agents is a podcast representing a collaboration between the Sia Furler Institute and The Australian Institute for Machine Learning at the University of Adelaide as a part of the Art Intelligence Agency. Through conversational interviews, the podcast explores the intersections of contemporary art and artificial intelligence with a distinct focus on how this relates to human creativity. Hosted by Tim Whiffen of Whimsy Productions, this podcast represents the work of many respected contributors to the Art and AI fields. The possibilities of AI stretch beyond imagination, and yet are limited by the lack of inbuilt imaginative consciousness in machine learning. Follow the series as it distinguishes the prospects from the constraints of this modern technology. Upcoming interviews include creatives, stakeholders, and academics in the fields of philosophy, physiology, art, information technology, and music. Subscribe to the podcast on your favourite podcatcher and consider giving it a review. If you have any feedback, examples or topic suggestions please get in contact with Tim: [email protected].

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Technology Society & Culture Philosophy Arts Ai
Update frequency
every 15 days
Average duration
29 minutes
Episodes
17
Years Active
2020 - 2022
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Ep 17: Agent Alan Thompson - Do AI Write of Electric Sheep?

Ep 17: Agent Alan Thompson - Do AI Write of Electric Sheep?

As you read my words now, the text has been constructed with several decisions about the words, tone, and grammar. While it seems straightforward to articulate this message rationally, it is far from…

00:25:16  |   Sat 13 Aug 2022
Ep 16: Agent Ramon Amaro - Can Machines Perceive in Totality?

Ep 16: Agent Ramon Amaro - Can Machines Perceive in Totality?

When AI is only worth as much as the algorithms and data it is based upon, what cultural impacts and criticisms are not afforded to what can be deemed objective data? Though we have looked at AI thro…

00:44:28  |   Fri 17 Sep 2021
Ep 15: Agent Anthony Fraiser - Leveraging AI for Creative Content

Ep 15: Agent Anthony Fraiser - Leveraging AI for Creative Content

Would you listen to a story made by a machine? We've discussed how AI can collaborate with humans in art, inspiring some truly great work across mediums. But what happens when creatives take their pa…

00:24:41  |   Sat 21 Aug 2021
Ep 14: Agent Marcus du Sautoy - Formulating a Creative Outcome

Ep 14: Agent Marcus du Sautoy - Formulating a Creative Outcome

It seems that many people would rather use calculators or employ the services of an accountant than practice the language of mathematics, we've got plenty more fun things to be doing than formal equa…

00:31:49  |   Sat 26 Jun 2021
Ep 13: Agent Marian Mazzone - When AI Writes the History Books

Ep 13: Agent Marian Mazzone - When AI Writes the History Books

The study of art history brings with it questions of identifying and classifying genres, styles, and interpretations, providing an understanding of art at a sophisticated level. With the emergence of…

00:30:13  |   Sat 05 Jun 2021
Ep 12: Agent Tim Gruchy Pt2 - Incorporating Technology into Organic Expression

Ep 12: Agent Tim Gruchy Pt2 - Incorporating Technology into Organic Expression

As this series has explored the possibilities of artistic creativity with regard to AI, a common theme arises where AI is unable to self-sufficiently create meaningful work, but with direction from a…

00:43:00  |   Thu 20 May 2021
Ep 11: Agent Tim Gruchy Pt1 - Complex Experience through the Eyes of AI

Ep 11: Agent Tim Gruchy Pt1 - Complex Experience through the Eyes of AI

As this series has explored the possibilities of artistic creativity with regard to AI, a common theme arises where AI is unable to self-sufficiently create meaningful work, but with direction from a…

00:26:35  |   Fri 07 May 2021
Ep 10: Agent Tega Brain - Engineering Art for Ecological Needs

Ep 10: Agent Tega Brain - Engineering Art for Ecological Needs

While data is technically valuable to industry and science, it also makes an amazing subject for artistic exploration and expression. Data is a fantastic way of knowing about something but it is a li…

00:23:46  |   Sat 24 Apr 2021
Ep 9: Agent Lev Manovich - Machines are Already More Creative Than Us

Ep 9: Agent Lev Manovich - Machines are Already More Creative Than Us

Digital culture can be separate from tangible culture but the effects and integration of digital culture make it indistinguishable as we progress further into the 21st century. With constraints like …

00:30:34  |   Fri 16 Apr 2021
Ep 8: Agent Ellen Broad - Artificial *Human* Intelligence

Ep 8: Agent Ellen Broad - Artificial *Human* Intelligence

AI can be seen as entirely separate or different to human intelligence, but if we consider it deeply, it is only made possible by human intelligence. Is AI just an extension of Humans then? Data poli…

00:27:48  |   Fri 26 Mar 2021
Ep 7: Agent Marcus Endicott - Being Virtual in a Material World

Ep 7: Agent Marcus Endicott - Being Virtual in a Material World

You may know virtual bots like "Siri" or "Alexa", and you may have chatted to a bot to order a pizza, but virtual beings take these foundations to the next level. Even now we imagine personalities fo…

00:21:12  |   Fri 12 Mar 2021
Ep 6: Agent David Olney - The Merit of Boring AI

Ep 6: Agent David Olney - The Merit of Boring AI

So far we've shown some ways in which artists and engineers are using AI in creative ways or in creative processes and it has been a fascinating philosophical journey. In this episode, we bring Agent…

00:30:53  |   Fri 26 Feb 2021
Ep 5: Agent Mitchell Whitelaw - Data as a Tool for Aesthetic Creations

Ep 5: Agent Mitchell Whitelaw - Data as a Tool for Aesthetic Creations

The act of using code or data and giving them aesthetic outcomes is the project of the 21st century, the information age. With all of this information and computing power at our disposal, it doesn't …

00:19:10  |   Fri 12 Feb 2021
Ep 4: Agent Saqib Shaikh - Seeing the world through AI (Featuring Agent David Olney)

Ep 4: Agent Saqib Shaikh - Seeing the world through AI (Featuring Agent David Olney)

When we look at a painting or gaze upon a movie scene, we gather the visual information on what objects are, why something may be moving, and what that might mean. For a machine, these inputs break d…

00:43:28  |   Fri 29 Jan 2021
Ep 3: Agent Jon McCormack - The Great Partnership between Human and Machine

Ep 3: Agent Jon McCormack - The Great Partnership between Human and Machine

Professor Jon McCormack of Monash University joins the Art Intelligence Agency to discuss the considerations of pairing human creative endeavours with the strict logic of computer technology. Jon's u…

00:27:58  |   Fri 15 Jan 2021
Ep 2: Agent Jon Opie & Agent Ben Lancer - What Makes a Creative Mind a Mind at All?

Ep 2: Agent Jon Opie & Agent Ben Lancer - What Makes a Creative Mind a Mind at All?

Dr Jonathan Opie and Benjamin Lancer join the Art Intelligence Agency to dispense their collective expertise on how machines can resemble organic intelligence. While machines have been able to solve …

00:38:24  |   Fri 01 Jan 2021
Ep 1: Agent Sam Leach - Automatic Learning Augmenting the Creative Process

Ep 1: Agent Sam Leach - Automatic Learning Augmenting the Creative Process

Sam Leach joins the podcast to discuss his artistic work in his latest collection titled Fully Automatic, which featured at Sullivan & Strumpf in Sydney in 2020. Sam excels as an artist by his own me…

00:19:46  |   Fri 18 Dec 2020
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