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Jun 2023
59m 59s

Art and AI with Raphaël Millière

ELLIE ANDERSON, PH.D. AND DAVID PEñA-GUZMáN, PH.D.
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Machine minds can work a paintbrush, but are they really making art? In episode 80 of Overthink, Ellie and David talk with guest Raphaël Millière, scholar and philosophy lecturer at Columbia University, on the aesthetic merits of computer-generated art. They discuss the thorny marriage of art and technology in everything from the early days of photography to ... Show More
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