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The Dutch-Israeli author on a demonic club hit, her fish fixation, and her love
of furniture restoration videos
Born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1987, Yael van der Wouden is a writer and teacher
who lectures in creative writing and comparative literature in the Netherlands.
Her work has appeared in publications including LitHub, Electric Literature and
Elle.com, and she has a David Attenborough-themed advice column, Dear David, in
the online literary journal Longleaf Review. Her essay on Dutch identity and
Jewishness, On (Not) Reading Anne Frank, received a notable mention in the 2018
Best American Essays collection. The Safekeep, published by Viking earlier this
year, is Van der Wouden’s debut novel and is shortlisted for the Booker prize.
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As generative AI advances, it is easy to see it as yet another area where
machines are taking over – but humans remain at the centre of AI art, just in
ways we might not expect
When faced with a bit of downtime, many of my friends will turn to the same
party game. It’s based on the surrealist game Exquisite Corpse, and involves
translating brief written descriptions into rapidly made drawings and back
again. One group calls it Telephone Pictionary; another refers to it as
Writey-Drawey. The internet tells me it is also called Eat Poop You Cat, a
sequence of words surely inspired by one of the game’s results.
As recently as three years ago, it was rare to encounter text-to-image or
image-to-text mistranslations in daily life, which made the outrageous outcomes
of the game feel especially novel. But we have since entered a new era of
image-making. With the aid of AI image generators like Dall-E 3, Stable
Diffusion and Midjourney, and the generative features integrated into Adobe’s
Creative Cloud programs, you can now transform a sentence or phrase into a
highly detailed image in mere seconds. Images, likewise, can be nearly instantly
translated into descriptive text. Today, you can play Eat Poop You Cat alone in
your room, cavorting with the algorithms.
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For his explosion event in Los Angeles, Cai Guo-Qiang built his own version of
ChatGPT and employed a drone army to answer the question: what is the fate of
humanity and AI?
For decades, Cai Guo-Qiang has been the world’s foremost fine artist of
explosions. He is famous for his massive fireworks displays, from his glowing
footsteps in the sky at the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, to his 2015
Sky Ladder, a 1,650-foot flaming ladder to heaven featured in a Netflix
documentary.
Recently, the gunpowder artist has become obsessed with a new threatening
technology: artificial intelligence.
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