Monday, 1 June 10:00am – 12:00pm
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Meeting Summary
This meeting focused on discussing the impact of AI on art and creative processes, with participants sharing various examples and perspectives. Peter Law presented a video about Ai-da, the world's first humanoid robot artist, sparking debate about what constitutes true artistic creativity and whether AI can truly create original art. Members interpreted the brief “Be your own AI Art critic” in the following ways:
- Highlighting the shortcomings of generative AI art/design
- Wine glass problem - it is very hard to get ChatGPT5.0 to generate a realistic overflowing wine glass because images out there are nearly all appropriately filled glasses.
- Critique of AI “Slop” or fake content like @Kreadul realistic cat videos of a cat doing unrealistic things
- Using tools to generate AI “Art” and present to the group for critique
- Illustration of “Mole” representing a plumbing artifact – rendered as a watercolour of the animal mole – emerging from a drain in a hard hat (Penny)
- Santorini series (Alan Winchcombe) – in style of Van Gogh and a rather convincing Renoir
- Considering the role of AI in a specific graphic design challenge (ie building an infographic/Quick guide for bus routes in any town)
The group discussed developing an AI system to translate modern English words and phrases into Anglo-Saxon/Old English, with Mike explaining his interest in etymology and British place names. Peter demonstrated how to use Claude to generate the system, including decisions about the interface design, dictionary approach, and output format. The team agreed to make AI and art the topic for their next meeting on June 1st at 10am, where they plan to bring AI-generated pictures to critique or discuss AI and art-related topics.
Next meetings:
Monday 6th July 10 am Discussion: Agentic AI: Are they the best or worse things ever built?
Suggested by Peter Law. Based on Hannah Fry’s new offering “An Absolute Liability”.
Members should be prepared to argue the case either way.
Ideas and contributions to Penny and Sophie (glai@u3aivo.uk) by the Thursday before the meeting ie July 2nd.
The Zoom link for the meeting will follow.