Reading Time: 6 minutes Artificial intelligence is fast becoming the hot technology in film and television industry. Tech shows and university campuses are awash with case studies and demos of the power of AI to transform the way we produce visual media. However, the storm of controversy that engulfed Brady Corbet’s latest film, The Brutalist, suggests that not everyone is ready… Read more »
Articles Tagged: Artificial Intelligence
AI and Creative Expression Webinar
Reading Time: 2 minutes From generative writing tools to augmented publishing processes, artificial intelligence is rapidly changing and challenging the landscape of creative writing and publishing. To respond, MyWorld and Bath Spa University’s Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries (CCCI) and Narrative and Emerging Technologies (NET) Lab have developed a series of free webinars, Writing with Technologies, to offers… Read more »
An Emerging Writer’s Guide to AI
Elisha Westmore
Reading Time: 5 minutes Regardless of whether you’re an emerging or established writer, it’s no secret how frustrating the writing process can be. Taika Waititi aptly sums it up in my favourite way, “What does writing actually mean? Sometimes writing is opening up your laptop, looking at a blank page for about eight hours, feeling sad, and closing it…” … Read more »
What Then Must We Do About AI?
Guy Gadney
Reading Time: 4 minutes This article by Guy Gadney, CEO of Charisma.ai, is one of a series commissioned as part of MyWorld, a UKRI-funded project that explores the future of creative technology innovation by pioneering new ideas, products and processes in the West of England. We have commissioned writers, academics, creators and makers to contribute a written snapshot into how artificial intelligence is changing, enhancing and challenging creative writing and publishing practices. The UK creative industries are financial powerhouses, recognised internationally for writing,… Read more »
AI and Creative Writing Practice Webinar
Reading Time: 2 minutes From generative writing tools to augmented publishing processes, artificial intelligence is rapidly changing and challenging the landscape of creative writing and publishing. To respond, MyWorld and Bath Spa University’s Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries (CCCI) and Narrative and Emerging Technologies (NET) Lab have developed a series of free webinars, Writing with Technologies, to offers… Read more »
Writing with Technologies Webinar Series Returns
Reading Time: 3 minutes From generative writing tools to augmented publishing processes, artificial intelligence is rapidly changing and challenging the landscape of creative writing and publishing. This free four-part webinar series, the second series of webinars from MyWorld and Bath Spa University’s Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries (CCCI) and Narrative and Emerging Technologies (NET) Lab, offers an in-depth… Read more »
Writing with Technologies Webinar Series Insights
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this time of rapid technological advancement, the intersection of artificial intelligence and creative practices has become a focal point of academic research within MyWorld. Recognising the importance of this fast-evolving landscape, Bath Spa University’s Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries (CCCI) and the Narrative and Emerging Technologies (NET) Lab recently curated the Writing with… Read more »
AI and “Symbiotic Creativity”
Reham Hosny
Reading Time: 3 minutes This article by Reham Hosny is one of a series commissioned as part of MyWorld, a UKRI-funded project that explores the future of creative technology innovation by pioneering new ideas, products and processes in the West of England. We have commissioned writers, academics, creators and makers to contribute a written snapshot into how artificial intelligence is changing, enhancing and challenging creative writing and publishing practices. In the early stages of algorithmic creative writing, Christopher Strachey‘s love letter generator, developed… Read more »
A Brief History of Writing: From Human Meaning to Computational Pattern Recognition and Beyond
Gary Hall and Joanna Zylinska
Reading Time: 3 minutes This article is one of a series commissioned as part of MyWorld, a UKRI-funded project that explores the future of creative technology innovation by pioneering new ideas, products and processes in the West of England. We have commissioned writers, academics, creators and makers to contribute a written snapshot into how artificial intelligence is changing, enhancing and challenging creative writing and publishing practices. What forms will literature and creative writing take ‘after AI’? And what will happen to the… Read more »
Writing with and for ‘New’ Technologies
Lynda Clark
Reading Time: 6 minutes This article by Anna Ganley, CEO of the Society of Authors, is one of a series commissioned as part of MyWorld, a UKRI-funded project that explores the future of creative technology innovation by pioneering new ideas, products and processes in the West of England. We have commissioned writers, academics, creators and makers to contribute a written snapshot into how artificial intelligence is changing, enhancing and challenging creative writing and publishing practices. Like many writers, I don’t have a… Read more »