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AI and the Arts

April 15, 2025
Greg Niemeyer
For CalDay 2025, Art Practice Professor Greg Niemeyer will address a major concern for contemporary artists: How does generative AI change art practice? This free an dopen lecture will take place on April 19, 2 pm, at Room 120 of the Anthropology and Art Building. It seems, at first sight, that visualizations of many subjects in many artistic styles can easily be generated by machines with simple text prompts. Niemeyer explains how generative AI works, what it can do, what it cannot do, and why, except for very specific cases, it does not make art....

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