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Andy Warhol on Artificial Intelligence

My video series „Let the Old Masters Talk About Artificial Intelligence“ is my way of dealing with the astonishment and awe that I felt when the first generative AI systems were breaking through into the general audience around 2022 AC. You could make real figures do and say things that you thought were funny or exciting. My intention is to comment on AI from a profoundly human view: what becomes of our dignity, our self-esteem, if our world is co-inhabited by agents that outperform the humanoids? Some of these episodes are dead serious, and some are pranks. This one is special. Andy Warhol. It is both serious and a prank. And for a reason: when Warhol broke into the art scene, he was sometimes deemed a prank himself. Somebody who took ordinary things and made them gallery objects (Campbell’s Soup Cans). He spiced it up with his disdain for museums only to become one of the most expensive modern artists himself. He merged the ordinary with art; he amalgamated business and art. In my estimate, he would have loved and incorporated generative AI into his art business without any hesitation.
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Technical note: I synthesized the voice of Andy Warhol from a 1966 interview. I also added the interviewer’s voice into the mix. Thus creating a third voice with resemblance but independence and artificiality. While testing it, I noticed that I had to change my text draft: Andy Warhol was known for his vague, ambiguous public talking. However, he is the source of key aphorisms about the postmodern world. He could sum it all up in a few elementary words.

„Let the Old Masters Talk About Artificial Intelligence“ on YouTube:
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