Tuesday, September 05, 2023
Venice Immersive Project ‘Tulpamancer’ Brings Dreams to Life Via AI
The Hollywood Reporter: Tulpamancer, created by Marc Da Costa and Matthew Niederhauser uses open-source AI tools, including Open AI and StableDiffusion, to reconstruct users’ memories and dreams in a guided two-step journey, then reproduce through virtual reality (VR).
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This is an interesting project and take on AI. The debate about AI and artists, whether it is stealing jobs or ideas, and how moral it is to use AI to create movies, shows, and art in general. Niederhauser’s quote, “In the hands of an exploitative industry, AI can be very harmful.” is the best way to explain. From a consumer perspective, the piece would be interesting to experience but gives me the slightest heebie jeebies. Giving an artificial mind deep insight to not just events in my life but possibly how they made me feel and the impact they had on me seems so invasive. And there’s no way that these are not seen by the creators of the AI and the piece itself. It’s interesting and oddly reassuring that a team that created this piece and is actively using AI also warns about how harmful AI can be.
This article details an experience that can recreate your dreams with the help of AI tools that anyone can access. I think this is a super interesting use of AI, one that I would not have necessarily ever thought about. While they claim the project isn't dangerous, I still think it can definitely be seen as scary. While yes, the AI isn't actually sentient, something about a program knowing this much information about you feels off. Despite this, I still think this project is a very good use of AI in art. An article I read last week talked about how actors, writers, and artists were worried about AI taking their jobs, which I do think is a major concern. In this case, however, AI is being used to do something that no human could. It pushes us further into innovation without harming the economic infrastructure we currently have set up.
In this case, I think it is a really good use of technology, especially AI. I’ve always been fascinated with dreams and dreamt of turning my dreams into art pieces. To see AI being used in different art forms, as many of the current discussions go, there are definitely many controversies. While I agree that it is important to credit arts (no matter in which form) and the debate about who the rights go to for AI-generated arts, I’m still very much in favour of merging arts and technology. When the article mentioned that the participant needs to have ‘“conversations” with the computer, it made me think about whether such processes can be integrated into other fields. The immediate one that comes to mind is an AI-based therapist. I imagine having the client talk to the computer, sharing their thoughts, and the computer performing the primary ‘diagnostics’. Obviously, the job of a therapist is far more complicated than this, but I can see how technology can be implemented in the primary stages of medical facilities.
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